Cross Tay Link Road

Cultural heritage includes archaeology, historic buildings/structures and historic landscapes including parks and gardens.

An assessment on the direct and indirect impacts of the proposed CTLR Project on heritage assets has been undertaken, and in order to complete this Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust (PKHT) were consulted.

The Cultural Heritage assessment considers direct impacts on all known designated and non-designated heritage assets within the boundary of the proposed CTLR Project. A study area of 250m is used around all temporary and permanent elements of the proposed CTLR Project to understand the development of the historic environment and to create a predictive model of the probability for potential buried archaeological remains to exist. Extensive geophysical survey and trial trenching has been undertaken over the unwooded parts of the proposed CTLR Project.

The potential for unknown assets across the proposed CTLR Project is low, with the exception of pre-historic assets between the eastern bank of the River Tay and Stormontfield Road, post-medieval assets between Stormontfield Road and the A93, pre-historic Roman and early medieval assets in the Blairhall area of compensatory planting and pre-historic assets in the Cairnton area of compensatory planting. In these areas the potential for assets of the specified periods is moderate.

Adverse effects of moderate significance are predicted on the multivallate fort at Broxy Kennels during construction due to the demolition of this asset. However, through a programme of archaeological recording this effect can be mitigated to very slight.

There are currently three options for the River Tay Crossing Bridge construction access, and this  assessment has considered all three. Should Option 1 be used (temporary crossing over the River Almond), a Scheduled Monument Consent application would be required as the route travels over Bertha Roman Fort Scheduled Monument.  To mitigate and reduce the adverse effects on the scheduled monument, detailed mitigation measures have been developed and agreed with HES.

The predicted significant operational effects include adverse impact to the setting of parts of Scone Palace Garden and Designed Landscape (GDL) and Grassy Walls Roman Camp Scheduled Monument. In both cases the greatest effect is located within the area called Bowman’s Field as this is the area where the new road will pass through. Adverse effects of moderate significance are predicted on the setting of one non-designated heritage asset due to the severance and demolition of the asset, the multivallate fort at Broxy Kennels.

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