Roads - 25-0006-LRB - Response (Sept 2025)
Argyll and Bute Council · 13 October 2025
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Classification: OFFICIAL ARGYLL AND BUTE COUNCIL ROADS RESPONSE LOCAL REVIEW BOARD REFERENCE NUMBER 25/0006/LRB PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE NUMBER 24/01389/PP LOCATION: Land South Of Fernbank Rahane Roads Response 2 September 2025
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Roads Review – 25/0006/LRB – Erection of dwellinghouse and detached double garage– September 2025 (rev 0) Classification: OFFICIAL Document history This document has been issued and amended as follows: Version Date Description Created by 0 15/09/2025 Roads Response R.Kane
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Roads Review – 25/0006/LRB – Erection of dwellinghouse and detached double garage– September 2025 (rev 0) Classification: OFFICIAL Contents 1. Overview 1 2. Roads Response to Appeal Comments 2
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Roads Review – 25/0006/LRB – Erection of dwellinghouse and detached double garage– September 2025 (rev 0) Classification: OFFICIAL 1. Overview This document provides a detailed Roads response to the AB7 from presented in conjunction with: Planning permission for the erection of dwellinghouse and detached double garage, installation of sewage treatment plant and formation of vehicular access, land south of Fernbank, Rahane, Argyll and Bute (LPA Reference 24/01389/PP)
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Roads Review – 25/0006/LRB – Erection of dwellinghouse and detached double garage– September 2025 (rev 0) Classification: OFFICIAL 2. Roads Response Information Required: Referring to the planning history of Ach-Na-Cloich Lodge, to review guidance provided to similarly located developments on this stretch of road which allowed developments to commence, with appropriate conditions ensuring road safety was not compromised. Argyll and But Roads Response Roads are being asked to draw similarities with a neighbouring development that obtained approval in 2011, some 14 years ago. In this time we have seen numerous changes to roads design and safety guidance, some of which include: • Scots – National Roads Development Guide (2017) • Transport Scotland – Roads for All (2013) • Argyll & Bute Roads Technical Guidance (2024) Furthermore, as detailed previously, both urban and rural communities have seen a significant increase in both vehicle ownership and use of the carriageway since 2010. A review of Transport Scotland statistics outlines that the number of motor vehicles licensed in Scotland in 2010 was 2.7 million. In contrast, there were 3.13 million vehicles licensed for use on the roads in Scotland in 2023 (the highest number on record) and a 16% increase since the planning application referenced above. It should be noted however that in the above application/ permission for development was conditioned with the same visibility splay requirements of 75m in both directions. Roads did not condition an absence from this requirement and therefore expected the condition to be delivered. It can therefore be acknowledged that whilst undertaken 14 years previous, the Roads assessment and response is consistent, with due recognition for the location and the associated Health and Safety concerns that demand the full visibility splay be achieved. Whilst the applicant/ agent details improvement to the existing accesses of neighbouring properties, such as Ach-Na-Cloich, it should be noted that: • The proposed development does not achieve the minimum visibility requirements required for a new access. • The neighbouring property, some 14 years previously was approved on the condition that the very same visibility splay requirements be achieved. • It is a failure of the Planning and monitoring process that the neighbouring property did not delivery the access required, this is not justification for ignoring the consistent Roads assessment for the creation of a new access at this location, and the associated Health and Safety factors. Finally, I would reiterate a point raised within my previous response, that being that whilst Road Safety Statistics detail that between 2014 and 2023 the recorded number of roads related casualties has reduced from 194,477 in 2014 to 132,977in 2023, some 32%,. These are not as a result of local Authorities accepting lesser standards from developers. Contrary, they are as a result of improved Roads knowledge and design guidance that demands higher standards and safer roads, not by accepting (further) below standard accesses.