‘Firm must do more on pedestrian safety’
traverse them at the same time should the designs be approved.
His assessment comes two months after PKC confirmed the company had been building roads at the site without the proper consent and just one month after it emerged people had been moving into new properties without valid temporary certificates of occupation or completion certificates in place.
Mr Salman says in his objection: “In terms of the transport assessment, the C495 with its junction to the A922 (access to Kinross High School/Loch Leven Community Campus) has not been assessed in terms of vehicular impact on the existing junction operation, particularly during school term time.
“Given that this location has also been identified as having an accident occur resulting in slight injury (15/06/2015 during school term time), this should be investigated further in terms of pedestrian impact of the development and movements of pedestrians at this junction.”
Elsewhere in his response Mr Salman said: “The swept path analysis shows that at numerous locations and over extended distances a waste service vehicle would overly prohibit two way traffic movements.
“It is also likely that the presence of any on street parking would result in said vehicle having to mount verge and footway areas to navigate the proposed site.
“Consequently the appropriate requirement for provision of 25 per cent visitor parking is not met through the use of on street parking and substantial parking restrictions would be required to be put in place throughout the development to ensure the proposed site could be navigated by service vehicles appropriately.”
To date the same application has attracted 156 objections from local groups and individuals including one from Kinross Community Council who say they consider “the whole application to be unsuitable for Kinross”.
A design and access statement prepared by Crawford Architectural on behalf of Persimmon Homes and sent to PKC earlier this year claimed the scheme had been designed “to provide universal barrier free access throughout the buildings and external spaces for all users”.
It went on: “The design aims to create an active, safe, accessible, inclusive neighbourhood with wellconsidered features to compliment the natural expansion of Kinross.”