Publication - FOI/EIR release

Extent of specific Transport Scotland maintained trunk roads: EIR release

Published: 19 July 2017
Topic: Public sector, Transport

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

FOI reference: FOI/17/01225
Date received: 20 March 2017
Date responded: 27 June 2017

Information requested

Confirmation of the extent of Transport Scotland adopted road at the following locations:

POI	Location Description	Co-ordinates
1	A87 - East Pier Junction at Kyle of Lochalsh	57.281234, -5.709221
2	A87 - West Pier Junction at Kyle of Lochalsh	57.280956, -5.716437
3	Kyleakin Roundabout	57.272584, -5.744795
4	A87 - Broadford Junction	57.251469, -5.820437
5	A87 - A887 Junction at Bunloyne	57.146077, -4.958501
6	A87 - A82 Junction at Invergarry	57.069827, -4.792597
7	A887 at Torgyle	57.175058, -4.797992
8	A82 - A831 Junction at Drumnadrochit	57.337352, -4.480039

Copies of plans that indicate the extent of adopted trunk road in these locations.

Response

In relation to your request, trunk roads are not "adopted" in the manner described. Trunk roads, within boundaries defined in our extent of unit document (attached), are maintained by Transport Scotland, as the road authority, in accordance with the Road Scotland Act 1984. The land on which the trunk road lies may not be owned by Scottish Ministers, also land out with/ adjacent to the trunk road boundary may be owned by Scottish Ministers.

In terms of the areas shown in the attached documents Annexes A – H, Transport Scotland are responsible for maintenance of the trunk road, in the area of the plan you have been provided with, from "boundary to boundary". In the area shown this would be "boundary to boundary", mainly in the area shown this can be assumed to be fence line to fence line. Further details of this can be found in Transport Scotland's Extent of Unit document, which can be found at Annex I (attached).

Please refer to the attached Annexes as detailed below:

POI	Location Description	Annex
1	A87- East Pier Junction at Kyle of Lochalsh	Please refer to Annex A
2	A87 – West Pier Junction at Kyle of Lochalsh	Please refer to Annex B
3	Kyleakin Roundabout	Please refer to Annex C
4	A87 – Broadford Junction	Please refer to Annex D
5	A87 – A887 Junction at Bunloyne	Please refer to Annex E
6	A87 – A82 Junction at Invergarry	Please refer to Annex F
7	A887 at Torgyle	Please refer to Annex G
8	A82 - A831 Junction at Drumnadrochit	Please refer to Annex H

As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIR's), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

Documents released

Annex A
Annex B
Annex C
Annex D
Annex E
Annex F
Annex G
Annex H
Annex I - Not attached due to the file size of this document. A copy can be provided on request by emailing ceu@gov.scot, quoting the FOI reference number FOI/17/01225.)

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