T in Park festival restricts 100 miles of roads

THE T In The Park music festival will lead to the closure and disruption of nearly 100 miles of roads across Scotland.

Perth and Kinross Council has lodged a lengthy list of affected roads that will be subject to temporary traffic restrictions during next month’s festival.

The music event has made a controversial move to a new site at Strathallan estate after the Health and Safety Executive expressed continued fears over the previous host site at Balado.

Almost 20 roads around the new site, including two A roads, face being closed for five days between July 9 and 13

he council has revealed the list of affected roads and made a series of closures and speed restrictions amounting to 98 miles of roads.

As well as closures, seven approach roads are to have speed limits of 30mph from today until the last week of July.

Those restrictions are to increase safety around the site during the setting up of the festival and the clear-up in the fortnight after the event.

The move to Strathallan has attracted a barrage of criticism from a section of the community around Auchterarder in Perthshire.

Concerns were raised over the protection of nearby ospreys nests, along with fears over a large store of aviation fuel close to the site and the health risk posed by ticks in the camping area.

Some residents say the road closures and restrictions will lead to people near the site becoming prisoners in their home.

The festival is being headlined by the Arctic Monkeys and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.