FIVE judges on the Supreme Court are set to rule next week 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 was regarded as a last-ditch attempt by the campaign group RoadSense to block the 28-mile Western Peripheral Route. Four Supreme Court judges – Lord Hope, Lord Kerr, Lord Dyson, Lord Reed and Lord Carnwath – will now rule on the appeal next Wednesday.
It is 60 years since plans for a bypass were first mooted as the solution to the gridlock in the city, and more than two years since the government gave the go-ahead for the road.