Assessment cumulative effects

The proposed works are not anticipated to result in significant environmental effects.

A search of the LLTNP Planning Portal identified no approved planning applications within 300m of the scheme within the last six months.

A search of the Scottish Roads Works Commissioner website (Scottish Road Works) identified roadworks involving a single lane closure for slope inspection/remediation works in the same area as the proposed works. These roadworks are currently ongoing. The proposed works will operate concurrently or directly after the current works utilising the same lane closure, reducing TM requirements and disruption from TM set up.

These works take place along a section of the A83 that has been subject to a high degree of modification in recent years. This scheme forms part of several phases of temporary remediation works being carried out to protect the A83 until the medium-term and long-term solutions can be constructed. As such, some cumulative noise and visual disturbance effects are anticipated due to the increased frequency of personnel and plant presence as well as cumulative landscape modification. However, it is expected that the medium-term and long-term solutions will involve significant areas of works that are likely to encompass most of the temporary remediation works that have been constructed at RaBT and will result in a wider area of impact. Our understanding is that the medium-term and long-term solutions are being designed with input from LLTNP and will include assessment and mitigation of visual landscape impacts at appropriate scales for those schemes.

BEAR Scotland programme all of their proposed works in line with appropriate guidance and contractual requirements. All schemes are programmed to take into account existing and future planned works, with a view of limiting any cumulative effects relating to traffic management. As a result of this exercise, where a potential for cumulative impacts is identified, BEAR will reprogramme schemes to avoid / limit any cumulative effects or will utilise existing traffic management to complete multiple schemes at once. This approach allows BEAR Scotland to effectively manage the potential cumulative effects as a result of traffic management, resulting in minimal disruption to users of the Scottish trunk road network.

Overall, it is unlikely that the proposed works will have significant cumulative effects with any other future works in the area.