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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002/ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
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Please find below the Council's response to your request 101000195961

Details of request: Please treat this as a Freedom of
Information/Environmental Information Regulations request. I would like
information about your council’s planning in relation to climate action
for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is most likely
to be held by a planning officer or similar.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

a. Has the Council approved any new*1 or expanded*2 roads or road
junctions in its area from 1st January 2020 until 15th August 2024? Please
list which ones were accepted.

*1 The intention of this question is to understand overall increases in
road capacity, rather than recent housing developments. Please exclude
minor roads built exclusively to connect new housing to the pre-existing
road network.

*2 An expanded road or road junction is one that has increased capacity
for motor vehicle traffic, not counting bus lanes, cycle infrastructure,
or pedestrian infrastructure. Please include roads and junctions where new
lanes have been added.

b. Has the council approved or rejected any new or expanded airport
runways, terminals, measures to increase passenger numbers or other
planning proposals that expand airport capacity in its area since 1st
January 2020 until 15th August 2024? Please list which ones were accepted
or rejected.

Response: As the information you have requested is environmental
information, as defined in Regulation 2 of
the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are
required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We have
therefore applied the exemption in section 39(2) of Freedom of Information
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a
*1 Dumfries and Galloway Council have carried out the construction of a
new Junction Improvement Project at New Abbey Road/Pleasance Avenue/Park
Road, Dumfries within the specified timescale. (Please see attached
General Arrangement Plan).

*2
Dumfries and Galloway Council have carried out the extension of a new link
road at Brown Brothers, Kirkconnel within the specified timescale. (Please
see attached General Arrangement Plan).

b.
Dumfries and Galloway Council has neither approved or rejected any
planning proposals pertaining to airport runways, terminals, or measures
to increase passenger numbers that expand airport capacity. Dumfries and
Galloway does not have any infrastructure of this nature within the
region.

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