Community council seeks to reverse CTLR decision
to the houses being built or to the road, but just to the road running through the development.
And now, in a letter sent to Mr Ruskell, Professor Belch is seeking a meeting with him to try and reverse the decision.
The letter states: “I write on behalf of the SDCC regarding the route of the CTLR.
“We are really hoping you can meet with us and help us. sYou will know that for 18 months we have been trying to get PKC to consider changing the CTLR route because of the adverse health impact on H29 householders.
“We polled 10 per cent of the village, and all asked for the route to be moved, the village as a whole is deeply disappointed that the council decided on June 19 to keep the road going through the development.
“Essentially the two routes are the same apart from two issues - firstly, the cost of the delay to make the higher route happen (which if they had listened to us would not be an issues), and secondly, the fact the lower route through the development will significantly adversely affect health and safety.
“These are significant concerns and if the developer were aware of these he might elect to build his own road to avoid losing much of H29. PKC artist’s impression of the Cross Tay Link Road
“We believe someone must be able to help stop this huge health inequality issue from happening.
“We should like to meet with you to discuss this and ask you to take action on these peoples’ behalf.
“Also, who else can we speak to in government who might be able to help us reverse this unbelievable decision?”
Mark Ruskell MSP, said: “Once again there have been major failings in the decision making process at PKC in relation to Scone developments.
“The CTLR should not be built in with pollution and health and safety problems which then cannot be undone in the future, the council must think again on this and I will be writing to the planning minister again about this case.”
Four public consultations will take place - in Perth, Scone, Luncarty and Coupar Angus - in August before planning permission is sought.
A PKC spokesperson said: “The alternative route proposed by Scone and District Community Council was considered in a detailed report to the full Council meeting on June 19 2019.
“This included an in depth technical evaluation of the environmental impacts of both routes, which showed that the original route would not present any air quality issues. The council agreed at that meeting to proceed with the original route. We have sought to respond to all correspondence from the community council regarding the CTLR and enable their input to the process of the route’s development during that process. “