Owing to Aberdeenshire Council’s roads service carrying out patching works it will be necessary in the interests of public safety to close the B979 Netherley road near the South Deeside Road junction (click on the map below for better definition).
The road will be closed for five days from Monday 21 May. Only once that work is completed, a second phase will see the Netherley road closed at Craigie Cat (see second map) for five days commencing Monday 21 May.
Site notices will be erected in due course indicating the temporary restrictions to traffic and the alternative route.
Vehicular access to affected properties is to be maintained whenever possible.
Please note that council officers tell me there will be no access for school transport while these works are taking place. The public transport unit tell me that the information has been forwarded to operators to look at what alternative route will be in place and whether some additional taxis will need to be in place for some pupils (which is more than likely, especially for the second closure by Netherley). As everyone will appreciate this takes a bit of time.
I have been assured that as soon as the alternative arrangements in place, the public transport unit will communicate this to the school who have the facilities to send text messages directly to parents, and update the website with the details as well.