‘Ashlar Village’ is currently being built on the old Ruchill hospital site – this will number over 400 homes.

The problem with this is that Glasgow City Council are insisting – against the wishes of residents – on creating a through road between Bilsland Drive and Panmure Street.

1. With two access points - roughly to the north and south - it is probable that this route will become a 'rat run'? (Even with traffic-calming measures.)

Sat-nav systems don't take into account the state of the roads, so traffic-calming measures will make little or no difference. Sat-navs just send cars through the quickest route. And most people simply follow their sat-nav.

Also, the committee report specifically states: 'The two connections for vehicular traffic provide an opportunity to connect the wider residential areas to the north and south.'

2. In what way would the access to Panmure Street (to the south) be 'secondary', as the Council has claimed? Surely, more people will exit that way as that is towards the city centre and the M8.

This will be an issue even if the traffic is only from the new estate, and not people using this as a through route.

Also, many parents will drive through the estate from Panmure Street to drop their children at the schools.

3. The road into the estate from Panmure Street is narrow and very windy. Visibility on that road is poor: when you are coming up from Panmure Street, you cannot see when cars are coming down McDonald Drive, you cannot see cyclists, and you cannot see if children are on McDonald Drive. (The same is true in reverse - if you are driving down McDonald Drive, you cannot see cars/cyclists/pedestrians coming up from Panmure Street.)

It is not suitable for lots of traffic.

4. Couldn't the southern access point from Panmure Street be restricted solely to houses from the original, Orchard (Keepmoat) estate plus a small part of the new estate?

5. Currently, many children play on the estate. This will no longer be safe with the big increase in traffic, and so the children will be kept indoors.

6. To open up the community, it would be better if there was pedestrian and cyclist access to all areas but no access for vehicles. Vehicles stifle a community by keeping people off the streets.

7. Bellway (the builders constructing Ashlar Village) have said: 'Regarding the access/egress points between Bellway and Keepmoat we did contact the Councils Roads dept to ask if these could be removed. As expected they declined this request and stated that the connections are necessary for good accessibility in compliance with Council and Scottish Government design policy.'

If neither the residents nor the developer of the new site want this vehicular connection, why must the Council insist on it?

8. If the scale of the development is such that it requires a minimum of two separate access points, then simply have the two access points that there will already be (Bilsland Drive and Panmure Street), without joining up the two separate parts of the estates for vehicles.

9. If alternative access in the event of a road closure, for say a sewer repair, is required, or access is needed for emergency vehicles, then why not simply have a set of bollards that can be lowered when necessary?

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