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Stuart.Wilson@transportscotland.gsi.gov.uk
Alex Sneddon
Transport Planning Limited
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93 George Street
Edinburgh EH2 3ES
By e-mail to: alex@tranplanworld.co.uk
Dear Mr Sneddon,
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Your ref:
AS/AITS/TP05
Our ref:
ABS/LDP/01
Date:
08 March 2011
Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan – Elsick Queries from Transport Planning Limited
representing the Banchory and Leggart Estate
Further to your letter dated 25 February to Alison Irvine, please note that I am now the Transport
Scotland lead for the Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan. In relation to your queries
regarding the Elsick allocation in the Proposed Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan please
find Transport Scotland’s response below.
Transport Scotland has worked with the Council, developers and other stakeholders throughout
the preparation of the Plan. The Scottish Government submitted a representation to the Council
regarding the inclusion of the Elsick allocation (Site M1) within the Proposed Plan on the basis
that the transport appraisal of the access strategy had not been completed to a sufficient level to
allow Transport Scotland to make an informed view of the inclusion of the allocation within the
Plan.
The transport appraisal of the access strategy by the developer, in consultation with Transport
Scotland, is ongoing and will consider the most appropriate options to provide access. The
appraisal is also considering the rationale for a new junction onto the Aberdeen Western
Peripheral Route Fastlink route, to be delivered as part of the wider access requirements for the
site as a whole.
It is Transport Scotland’s understanding that Aberdeenshire Council will shortly be submitting
the proposed plan and completed Schedule 4 forms for examination. Transport Scotland is yet
to submit a commentary to the Council on Elsick
Given the above and the fact that Transport Scotland has yet to respond on the outcomes of the
final appraisal it is not appropriate to provide further comment on the Elsick proposals at this
time. It is likely, furthermore, that many of the issues you raise may be more fully explored when
the Local Development Plan undergoes examination.
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In that case, it may be wise to consider how points such as those you raise will be more widely
addressed, and the appropriateness generally of discussing them outwith the framework offered
by the examination process itself.
We trust this clarifies Transport Scotland’s position at this time.
Yours sincerely,
Stuart Wilson
c.c. Laurence Kenney, Transport Scotland
David Anderson, Transport Scotland
David Liddell, Directorate for the Built Environment
Jill Paterson, Aberdeenshire Council
Peter MacCallum, Aberdeenshire Council
John Milligan, JMP Consultants Limited
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