A major Aberdeen infrastructure project may not be complete for five years, it emerged last night.
The long-awaited Berryden Corridor had originally been expected to be completed by 2020.
But at yesterday’s city growth committee meeting, it emerged that compulsory purchase orders on homes along the route were still being progressed and that construction was only likely to begin in 2020 or 2021.
Council officers estimated it would take around two years to build the road – making the 2020 deadline unlikely.
Opposition SNP finance spokesman Alex Nicoll said:“This bombshell revelation that the Berryden Corridor improvements may take at least another five years is beyond outrageous and the fact that there doesn’t appear to be any certainty as to what the budget will be is downright astonishing.
“The bleak reality is that by the time the road is complete this administration will have likely been in power for over a decade – and what a decade of failure it will have been.”
Council roads spokesman Ross Grant previously said that the SNP’s stance was “hypocritical” pointing out the group had removed it from the capital agenda when they were in power in 2009.
