Cross Tay Link Road

An assessment has been carried out to determine the likely significant effects upon population and health determinants associated with the proposed CTLR Project. The aim is to ensure population and human health is effectively considered in the EIA context, drawing on the results of other technical assessments and refocusing the conclusions onto health and social determinants (i.e. wellbeing, amenity, access to green space etc.). The assessment has considered the impacts that could arise during construction and when the road is built and operational. The assessment has considered both existing and future communities and drawn upon available baseline data.

Potential adverse effects are predicted during the construction of the proposed CTLR Project, however mitigation and best practice will manage these appropriately. The construction phase will provide beneficial impacts to the local population through opportunities to maximise the benefits to local people and the wider communities. Phase 1 of the PTFP won numerous awards for its community benefits and social value contribution, and it is proposed to build upon the relationships already established and the successes, ensuring the proposed CTLR will contribute even more to local communities. Further information is provided in Appendix 17.3 of the EIAR but some examples include:

• Local jobs created
• Work experience placements
• Health and Safety training
• Graduates and apprentices employed
• Engagement with pupils and students
• Money raised for charity
• Volunteering with the community
• Waste diverted from the landfill

Improvement in the local economy is one of the main aims of the proposed CTLR Project, as it will unlock development land as envisaged in the LDP, thereby facilitating sustainable economic growth in the Perth area. The operation of the proposed CTLR Project is predicted to have some positive and negative impacts upon population and human health however. It will connect communities, provide improved active travel routes, reduce air quality and congestion in Perth City Centre and improve access to high quality landscape areas. It will, however, result in localised noise and air quality effects and visual impacts at some sensitive receptors and increased traffic movements along the new route and on some parts of the existing road network (A93/A94 and Inveralmond Roundabout). The A9 experiences existing levels of congestion, to which it is anticipated that the proposed CTLR Project will increase. However, the predicted increase to congestion is an issue Transport Scotland is aware of. No significant adverse effects on population and human health determinants are predicted.

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