Request 101004040814

1. CURRENT AND PENDING POSITION

 Please provide the latest existing registers or lists of roads, bridges and structures in the study area that are currently:

 - closed;

- subject to weight, height, width, axle-load or other structural restriction;

- operating under temporary traffic management;

- awaiting repair, strengthening, replacement or investigation;

- included in a current or future works programme; or

- subject to enhanced monitoring because of structural condition, collision damage, scour, flooding, erosion or another safety concern.

 For each entry, please provide, where recorded:

 - asset name and reference;

- road and location;

- type and date of closure or restriction;

- reason;

- present condition or priority category;

- proposed work;

- estimated cost and funding status;

- programme status;

- expected start and completion dates; and

- current or proposed diversion route.

 Please include confirmed, provisional and currently unfunded schemes, clearly identifying their status.

 2. HISTORIC STRUCTURED RECORD

 Please provide any existing database export, register or schedule covering 5 August 2016 to 5 August 2026 that records:

 - road or bridge closures;

- temporary or permanent structural restrictions;

- emergency works;

- significant repairs or strengthening;

- bridge replacements;

- bridge strikes or collision damage;

- scour, flooding, erosion or drainage-related interventions; and

- closures or restrictions imposed following inspections or reported defects.

 Please include event date, duration, reason, action taken and cost where those fields are held in the existing system.

3. DIVERSION AND TRAFFIC-MANAGEMENT RECORDS

 For the events identified above, please provide, where readily identifiable:

 - the relevant temporary traffic regulation order or notice;

- the official signed diversion route;

- any planned, emergency, contingency or operational route considered or used, whether or not it was formally signed for the full duration;

- the roads and bridges forming the diversion;

- the duration;

- any recorded assessment of suitability for HGVs, buses, agricultural vehicles, abnormal loads or emergency vehicles;

- recorded complaints, safety concerns, road or verge damage arising from displaced traffic; and

- any alteration made after the diversion came into operation.

 Where these records are held separately, an index linking each closure or restriction to the relevant traffic order or diversion record would be sufficient initially.

4. A95, A96 AND LOCAL-NETWORK INTERACTION

 Although the A95 and A96 are trunk roads, please provide all relevant information held by Moray Council concerning:

 - consultation or coordination with Transport Scotland or its operating company;

- diversions from the A95 or A96 onto council roads;

- diversions from council roads onto the A95 or A96;

- local-road effects caused by trunk-road closures or queues;

- bridge, width, height, weight, flooding or winter constraints on alternative routes;

- complaints, defects, verge damage or safety concerns arising from diverted traffic;

- simultaneous closures affecting the trunk and local networks; and

- emergency and major-construction resilience where the A95 or A96 forms part of the available network.

5. FOCHABERS NEW BRIDGE AND THE CRANLOCH ROUTE

 Please specifically include Fochabers New Bridge over the River Spey, its current 2026 refurbishment programme, all related restrictions and closures, the formally signed diversion and all recorded effects on Moray roads.

 Please also include the local Elgin–Keith route through or near Cranloch, including the B9103 and all connecting adopted roads presently used by drivers avoiding A96 congestion or closures.

 Local road users report that substantial displaced A96 traffic is using this route. Concerns reported include impatient driving, unsafe overtaking, excessive speed, risky manoeuvres and collisions since the bridge works began. I am not presenting those reports as verified collision statistics; I am asking for the council’s recorded information.

 Please provide:

 - the precise roads and sections forming the Cranloch route;

- normal traffic counts and any counts taken since 6 July 2026;

- available vehicle-class and speed data;

- council-held collision, incident, complaint and near-miss records;

- reports of carriageway, verge, drainage or access damage;

- correspondence from residents, community bodies or road users;

- any inspection or road-safety assessment undertaken during the works;

- temporary signs, speed measures, enforcement requests or traffic-management action considered or implemented;

- whether the route was assessed before the works as a likely informal alternative to the A96;

- liaison with Transport Scotland, Amey and Police Scotland;

- recorded consideration of pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders, agricultural traffic and users of Cranloch Riding Centre; and

- any urgent or proposed mitigation for the remainder of the works.

 Please distinguish between:

 1. the formally signed diversion;

2. alternative routes formally considered but not signed; and 3. the actual informal routes reported or observed to be in use.

6. BOUNDARIES AND RESPONSIBILITY

 Please identify:

 - the council boundary relevant to the B9022 and Isla bridge area;

- the Moray-controlled section of the B9117;

- the roads, bridges and structures within Moray Council’s responsibility throughout the study area; and

- any asset whose ownership or maintenance responsibility is shared or uncertain.

 Please do not exclude a relevant road or structure solely because it lies outside Moray or outside the initial radius. Where another authority is responsible, please identify it and provide all related information held by Moray Council, including consultation and diversion planning.