Western Peripheral Route (WPR)

For a project that has been on the shelf for longer than many care to remember there has been a lot of activity in the past months. This is now a Scottish Executive project with the local Councils acting as agents. The route they are promoting though the NKRCC area is the so-called "route 14" endorsed by the County Councils years ago and running from the Charleston flyover junction on the A90 and crossing the South Deeside Road (SDR) just to the east of Blairs. When Aberdeenshire Council officials came to show us the line of route they could not tell us whether there would or would not be a junction between the South Deeside Road and the WPR but they did say that there would be no other junctions between Charleston and the South Deeside Road.

As the scheme progresses it will eventually be put out to consultation when objections can be heard. There is still, however in the intervening time much to be discovered in terms on the exact route line, its elevation, its gradient, lighting (if any), junctions, road surface, the closure or diversion of any of the roads that the WPR would cross, and, of course, any mitigation or compensation. We are also concerned that the impact on existing and future traffic movements should be properly understood by those working on this project. If you have a view on any or all of this please let us know. We have set up an email line for this issue at: WPR@NKRCC.org but any of the normal methods of communication are welcome as is attendance at our meetings !
We have shown a diagram of part of the line of route that we have been given by Aberdeenshire Council. This is not, as far as we have been made aware, definitive.

For further details see awpr.co.uk