Development in Auchterarder will stop after councillors refuse A9 junction

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Development in Auchterarder will be stopped after councillors refused plans for a £7 million offslip from the A9 at Shinafoot.Refusing the application planning convener Ian Massie said PKC wanted to send a "clear message" to developers to fulfil obligations.Muir Homes and Stewart Milne Group sought permission to create a single rather than dual slip road but said they did so on advice from PKC.Council officers recommended Perth and Kinross Council's Planning and Placemaking Committee refuse the application on Wednesday, November 23.At Wednesday's meeting several spoke of having taken "their life into their hands" crossing the A9 from the southbound carriageway into Aberuthven /Auchterarder.But locals said forming a slip road off the southbound A9 connecting to the B8062 at Shinafoot was not the solution.Council officers offered three reasons to refuse the project:Strathallan Conservative councillor Crawford Reid told the committee there was "no support for this proposal from the local communities".Cllr Bob Brawn asked if adding an on-ramp would make it "satisfactory" and/or where a better location would be.Cllr Reid said: "An on-ramp would be better.

It does not take away the major constraints of Shinafoot as a floodplain and the major issues with the B8062. If you ask the local community where they want it, they would want it in or around Aberuthven."Strathallan Conservative councillor Keith Allan said the project was a "waste of time" without an onslip.He added: "It needs to be on and off - regardless of where it is - or it does not offer a solution.

It's completely the wrong proposal."Objectors John and Doreen Cameron have lived next to the Shinafoot underpass at the Pairney Bridge on the B8602 for the past 27 years.J