Agreement over Kingask traffic

The Citizen, 3 March 2000

Fife Council have reached an agreement with St Andrews Bay Development Ltd. over construction traffic serving the Kingask golf and hotel development.

Chairman of the Strategic Development Committee, Councillor Bill Brand, announced this week that the agreement meant heavy goods traffic would be restricted to an average of less than 20 vehicles per day over the construction period.

He added however: “During the early period of construction, when concrete work has to be done, this figure will have to rise.”

It means the number of trips will now exceed 20 per day until June, with a new maximum figure of 35 trips per day

The volume of traffic travelling to and from the development will then be reduced until construction is scheduled for completion in April 2001.

To minimise the disruption during this time, the developers have agreed to the council’s request to set up a concrete batching plant, which will reduce the need for concrete deliveries.

Mr Brand explained: “To minimise inconvenience, movements on Lamond Drive will be restricted to 20 one-way trips until the concrete batching plant is set up and 10, two-way trips afterwards.

“Any other lorry movements will use a one-way system using routes south of the site, avoiding St Andrews altogether.”

He said that, to ensure all movements were monitored effectively, daily records of every vehicle serving the site would be maintained and made available to the council.

The developers have also agreed to carry out projections of vehicles delivering to allow contractors to reschedule as necessary to make sure traffic limits are not exceeded.

Production of daily logs of construction traffic will also allow the council’s Transportation Service, who will be carrying out spot surveys, to cross-check the situation.

Mr Brand concluded: “These measures are strict but I am satisfied that this agreement has struck a proper balance between the need to control construction traffic to the site and the requirements of the developer to complete work on the basis of a reasonable construction programme.”