Road closures a ‘total
A community council has blasted the planned road closures for the Biggest Weekend on Friday as a“total shambles”.
A number of roads in Perth city centre, Bridgend and Scone will be shut off to make way for the BBC event, which takes place at Scone Palace on Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26.
Details of the road closures were released at the end of last week with Keith McNamara, Perth and Kinross Council’s deputy director of housing and environment, advising residents not to travel into the city centre between 10am and 2pm on Saturday.
Now, the lack of communication and last-minute nature of the road closure plans has been heavily criticised by Scone Community Council.
Donald McKerracher, who is responsible for planning matters on the community council, said there has been a lack of communication between residents and the council of the road closures, adding he only received a list of closures when he attended Bridgend, Gannochy and Kinnoull Community Council’s meeting on Thursday night.
He said: “The council contacted the community council on January 20 when we got a note asking community council members to meet transport planning officers in Pullar House to look at a number of options being explored for traffic to and from the Scone Palace site.
“We have never seen or heard from anyone at the council since January.
“Someone was supposed to go to Bridgend, Gannochy and Kinnoull Community Council on Thursday for a briefing of road closures, but I went along to that and no one [from the council] bothered to go along.
“I live in Stormontfield which will have five miles of road closed. How are residents meant to get out and live? There has been zero communication and it is atrocious.”
Mr McKerracher added although signs have now gone up around Scone, they do not detail exactly when the roads will be shut.
Noel Gallagher will headline the Saturday night