Parliamentary questions
Peter Peacock
1,395 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all the designations and classifications used for buildings and monuments, giving the distinctions between each.
Answer · Patricia Ferguson: There are four statutory andnon-statutory designations for historic monuments, buildings and sites. Theseare:</p><p>Listed buildings are buildingsof special architectural or historic interest which are given legal protectionunder the Planning (Listed Building…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what principal considerations it or its agencies must have in making decisions about the future use of ancient and historic buildings, scheduled monuments, listed buildings and any other built structures of whatever age over which their consent is required.
Answer · Patricia Ferguson: When making decisions and/orproviding advice on the future use of scheduled ancient monuments, listed buildings,protected wrecks and sites included on the inventory of gardens and designed landscapeseach case has to be considered on its own facts and circumst…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the principal statutes, policy documents, European or international conventions, accords or agreements are to which the Executive is bound and which governs the work and considerations of ministers in relation to scheduled monuments, historic and listed buildings, and what relative w…
Answer · Patricia Ferguson: The key legislation for the preservationof and management of works on scheduled monuments is the Ancient Monuments andArchaeological Areas Act 1979. <i>Scottish Historic Environment Policy (SHEP) 2: Scheduling: protecting</i><i>Scotland</i><i>’s nationally im…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Highland Council has considered the adequacy of the connections between the southern distributor road in Inverness and the A9 around the southern boundary of Inverness and whether the Executive considers that the current connections are suitable for trunk road purposes.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Highland Council are currently carrying out the Inverness SouthConnectivity Study into possible improvements to the Inverness Southern DistributorRoad (ISDR), including its connections with the A9 trunk road. This study is programmedto be completed in Autumn …
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has been asked by the Highland Council to adopt the southern distributor road in Inverness as a trunk route and take over the existing A82 trunk route connecting to the A9 through Inverness; if so, what its response has been and, if not, what its response would be to such a req…
Answer · Tavish Scott: No approach has been made. Myresponse would be in accordance with my answer to question S2W-31314 on 8 February 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what priority the Highland Council gives in its roads expenditure programme to the southern distributor road in Inverness.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Priorities for the Highlandcouncil are a matter for Highland Council.</p>
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has considered the need for a new trunk road to replace the existing A82 route connecting to the A9 through Inverness; how and where any new route would cross the river and canal, given that it would require to be to the south of Inverness, and whether it should consider such i…
Answer · Tavish Scott: Transport Scotland hasnot undertaken any technical appraisal of the case for replacing the existing A82trunk route through Inverness.</p><p>Highland Council have invitedTransport Scotland to be part of the working group overseeing the InvernessSouth Connectiv…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has ever considered whether the southern distributor road in Inverness is suitable to be upgraded to a level appropriate for adoption as a trunk route or whether it has any plans to consider the issue.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Neither the Executive nor TransportScotland has yet undertaken any technical appraisal of the case for upgrading thisroute to trunk road status.</p><p>The effectiveness, or otherwise,of the A82 as a strategic route, and the need for alternatives to the existi…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, where a trunk route has been detrunked and the route remains in use for local needs and the local authority adopts responsibility for that route, the extra miles of local road created will be recognised as route length for grant purposes to the local authority concerned in subseq…
Answer · Tavish Scott: Road lane length data is usedin the distribution methodology to allocate resources to local authorities throughthe local government finance settlement. The most up to date data available fromlocal authorities at the time of each three year settlement is used …
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, prior to investment being made in a trunk route, the route must first be designated as a trunk route, even if it were planned that it would subsequently be designated as such; whether ministers have discretion over such a decision, and whether they could award funding to a local …
Answer · Tavish Scott: Transport Scotland’sresponsibility is to fund trunk roads and local authorities are responsible forfunding local roads. Scottish ministers can by order provide that any existingroad, or any road they propose to construct, should become a trunk road.</p><p>The…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any impediments in law, or any other impediment not within the discretion of a minister to decide, which would prevent it or its agents responsible for trunk routes working with a local authority and jointly funding new or upgraded roads’ infrastructure which meets both …
Answer · Tavish Scott: There are no impediments.</p>
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what examples there are of it or its agents working in partnership with local authorities to jointly provide a new or upgraded road to meet local and national trunk road needs in which the resultant road was designated as either a local or trunk road and which designation was used.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Recent examples include the A90 Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, the M74, Completion and the M77/Glasgow Southern Orbital.Transport Scotland is also working in partnership with North Ayrshire Councilin relation to a proposed improvement at The Den on the A7…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from the Highland Council on the question of the adequacy of the A82 trunk route connecting to the A9 through Inverness and whether representatives of the Executive have met the Highland Council in the last five years to discuss this issue.
Answer · Tavish Scott: No representations have beenreceived from Highland Council about the adequacy of the existing A82 trunk roadthrough Inverness. Highland Council has commissioned the Inverness SouthConnectivity Study which is a Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidelines (STAG) ap…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the traffic flow projections are for the A82 trunk route connecting to the A9 through Inverness for the next decade.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Traffic flow on the A82 trunkroad through Inverness is monitored on the section from Rose Street roundaboutto college roundabout. The Annual Average Daily Flow (AADF) in 2006 was 29,387.National Road Traffic Forecasts presume an annual increase in traffic flo…
23 Jan 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the A82 trunk route connecting to the A9 through Inverness is in all respects satisfactory for today's needs and the traffic flows projected for the next decade.
Answer · Tavish Scott: The A82 through Inverness is similarto many major roads going through a city and is affected by peak time delays. TheStrategic Transport Projects Review will consider the future needs of strategictransport corridors and links between them.</p>