Rethink after park and ride standstill

Consent to allow Saturday deliveries considered

Council chiefs will this week reconsider a plan to build a park and ride at Kinfauns after making no progress on the proposal for the past four years.

The local authority wants to alter the terms of the consent it got for the facility way back in February 2016 so construction workers can accept deliveries of building materials on Saturday mornings.

The proposed amendment will bring the hours during which contractors can accept deliveries in line with the hours they are allowed to work on the 240 space car park off the A85/Dundee Road.

A report ready to be considered by the council’s planning committee tomorrow morning on Wednesday says it is “not likely” residents will have to put up with hold-ups on local roads as a result of the change.

It states: “The principal issue for this planning application is whether the principle of construction deliveries taking place alongside onsite construction activities is acceptable.

“The exact construction programme and timescale is yet to be finalised and will not be available until such time that a preferred contractor has been appointed, however it is very unlikely that both construction deliveries and on-site activities would take place every Saturday during the construction phase.

“The primary aim of this amendment is to allow for some flexibility in construction delivery times.

“In any event, the construction phase of the development would remain bound by industry standards and the impact on existing residential amenity should not be of a level which is unacceptable, and this view is shared by environmental health.

“It will also be the case that traffic management plans will be in operation throughout the construction phase, which will minimise disruption to both the local road network and close residential properties not only on Saturdays but for the full duration of the construction phase.

“The additional impact on residential amenity as a direct result of this amendment is therefore considered to be minimal.”

Further down the same document it also states: “As part of the wider construction phase, a traffic management plan will be required which will ensure that both the local road network and neighbouring residential properties, are not adversely affected by vehicle movements associated with the construction phase.

“The amendment ... is not likely to have any significant impact on the traffic movements associated with the development, but any impact is likely to result in a reduced timescale for completion.”