Project benefits
These improvements will provide continuous dual carriageway between Aberdeen and Ellon, which will remove the bottleneck caused by the existing single carriageway. The local community have been pressing for this upgrade for a number of years.
Route Options Public Exhibition
On 15 and 16 June 2006 a Route Options Public Exhibition was held in The White Horse Inn, Balmedie between the hours of 12 noon and 8 PM on both days. The exhibition provided an opportunity for the public to comment on the emerging route options. A copy of the exhibition brochure and Route Options Public Exhibition Report are provided in pdf format.
Status
These details are available from the programme document
Impact on travel
The proposed scheme after construction will result in improved and more reliable journey times and improved safety.
Traffic management
As most of the construction work will be off-line, traffic management will only be required at the tie-ins. The contractor will be required to produce a traffic management plan to demonstrate that delays will be kept to a minimum.
Environmental impact
Environmental impact is detailed in the Environmental Statement which was published on 1 November 2007.
Documents
Draft Road Orders and an Environmental Statement for the proposed scheme were published on Thursday 1 November 2007, with the accompanying Compulsory Purchase Order published on 10 July 2008. An additional Compulsory Purchase Order No.2 was published on 19 February 2009.
A90 Balmedie to Tipperty Environmental Statement
Due to the file size of the full PDF of the Environmental Statement, PDFs are provided for each chapter. The initial link ‘This document is also available in PDF format' goes to the non-technical summary.
Note for Environmental Statement –
The Environmental Statement published on the Transport Scotland website states that figures are contained at the end of each chapter. Due to the size of files, the figures are actually presented as separate files on the webpage as listed.
The hard copy of the full Environmental Statement is presented in two volumes. The two volumes are:
Although the format differs the content of both Environmental Statements are consistent.
Public Local Inquiry
The Public Local Inquiry was held during the week commencing 18 August 2009 at the White Horse Inn, Balmedie.
Following the Pre-Inquiry meeting on 24 March 09, the Stage 2 Addendum Report published in November 2006 was made available for information.
Decision letter for the A90 Balmedie-Tipperty dualling scheme Public Local Inquiry.
Report of inquiry into objections to proposed dual carriageway.
Scottish Ministers published notice of their decision to proceed with the Environmental Statement on 15 March 2012. (pdf, 461KB)
Made Documents
Made Orders were published on 15 March 2012
The M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Balmedie to Tipperty) (Trunking and Detrunking) Order 2012
Mainline Order (pdf, 290KB)
Mainline Drawing - legend (pdf 179KB)
Mainline drawing (pdf 1.2MB)
The M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Balmedie to Tipperty) (Side Roads) Order 2012
Side road order (pdf 1.2MB)
Side road order drawing legend (pdf 208KB)
Side road order drawing keyplan (pdf 2.1MB)
Side road drawing - Part 1 (pdf 243KB)
Side road drawing - Part 2 (pdf 219KB)
Side road drawing - Part 3 (pdf 206KB)
Side road drawing - Part 4 (pdf 130KB)
Side road drawing - Part 5 (pdf 162KB)
Side road drawing - Part 6 (pdf 191KB)
Side road drawing - Part 7 (pdf 215KB)
Side road drawing - Part 8 (pdf 212KB)
Side road drawing - Part 9 (pdf 203KB)
Side road drawing - Part 10 (pdf 171KB)
Side road drawing - Part 11 (pdf 443KB)
Side road drawing - Part 12 (pdf 158KB)
The M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Balmedie to Tipperty) (Prohibition of Specified Turns) Order 2012
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Order 2012 (pdf 76KB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Drawing - legend (pdf 171KB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Drawing - keyplan (pdf 1.1MB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Drawing - Part 1 (pdf 171KB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Drawing - Part 2 (pdf 156KB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Drawing - Part 3 (pdf 161KB)
The M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Easter Hatton Link) (Prohibition of Specified Turns) Order 2012
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Order (pdf 77KB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) Order - legend (pdf 163KB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) key plan (pdf 483KB)
(Prohibition of Specified Turns) drawing (pdf 154KB)
The M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Easter Hatton Link) (Stopping up of Accesses) Order 2012
Stopping up of Accesses - Order 2012 (pdf 112KB)
Stopping up of Accesses - legend (pdf 171KB)
Stopping up of Accesses - key plan (pdf 503KB)
Stopping up of Accesses - drawing (pdf 187KB)
The M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Balmedie to Tipperty) Compulsory Purchase Order 2012
Compulsory Purchase Order (pdf 2.6MB)
CPO drawing Part 1 (pdf 511KB)
CPO drawing Part 2 (pdf 670KB)
CPO drawing Part 3 (pdf 479KB)
CPO drawing Part 4 (pdf 468KB)
CPO drawing Part 5 (pdf 502KB)
CPO drawing Part 6 (pdf 462KB)
CPO drawing Part 7 (pdf 495KB)
The M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Balmedie to Tipperty) Compulsory Purchase Order (No.2) 2012
CPO (No.2) (pdf 146KB)
CPO (No.2) Drawing (pdf 243KB)
Copies of the Made Orders may be inspected, free of charge, during normal business hours from 15 March 2012 to 27 April 2012 in Glasgow, Aberdeen or Balmedie:
Transport Scotland
Buchanan House
58 Port Dundas Road
Glasgow
between 0830-1700 (Monday-Thursday) and 0830-1630 (Friday).
Aberdeenshire Council
Council Offices, Woodhill Road
Westburn Road
Aberdeen
AB16 5GB
Hours: 0900-1700
Balmedie Library
Eigie Road
Balmedie
AB23 8YF
between 10:00-18:00
Contact
Major Transport Infrastructure Projects (MTRIPS)
Transport Scotland
Buchanan House
58 Port Dundas Road
Glasgow
G4 0HF
Tel: 0141 272 7100
Email: info@transportscotland.gsi.gov
or
Ronan Lyng
Grontmij Limited
Tel: 0131 550 6300
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