Judges to decide on £400m city bypass

FIVE judges at the UK’s Supreme Court will today rule on the final appeal standing in the 
way of the long-awaited 
£400 million Aberdeen bypass.

A two-day hearing was held at Britain’s highest court in July in what is regarded as a last-ditch attempt by the leaders of campaign group RoadSense to block the go-ahead for the 28-mile Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.

RoadSense chairman William Walton challenged a decision by three Scottish judges to throw out its latest Court of Session appeal against the project.

He appealed on the grounds of the alleged failure of the Scottish Government to properly implement a European directive relating to public participation on the fast-link stretch of the route, between the outskirts of Aberdeen and Stonehaven.

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