Plans which would see 200 lorries a day trundle past a Fife hospital have been branded “horrendous”.
The community council serving the village of Cameron is horrified at the latest proposal to transfer 60,000 tonnes of soil to the Feddinch golf course and hotel site and members say they will do everything they can to stop it.
However, it looks as though the final decision on whether controversial changes to the planning permission already granted for the £25 million development will be taken without any public input as Fife Council has ruled it is a “minor modification”.
Originally, it was agreed that no more than 20 lorries per day would transfer soil from an unspecified location to the Feddinch site for landscaping works.
The modification applied for is for 10 times that number, with the soil to come from the site at Pipeland earmarked for the new Madras College.
This is despite the fact a court will not determine until January whether the school can be built at Pipeland.
Gordon Ball, chairman of Cameron Community Council, has written to Fife Council expressing concern at their ruling that the modification is a minor one.
“It’s a huge modification and we’re absolutely horrified about it,” he said.
He is also worried about the number of HGVs passing St Andrews Community Hospital every day.
“The council is saying it will only be for six to eight weeks but this kind of major disruption, especially if you are not in the best of health, is horrendous.”
St Andrews Community Council has already made its objection clear to the local authority. Council officer Mary Stewart said the application would be the subject of a report to the north east Fife planning committee in due course.