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Phil Gallie: Con Committee
02 Nov 2004
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
My point follows on from Rob Gibson's. There are discrepancies between the route as it is proposed and what happens in future. Perhaps I am extending beyond my remit, but when I look at the map of the route I am conscious that the area of most uncertainty is the Roseburn corri...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
03 Oct 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
That is interesting and answers my question.Is it fair to say that I do not feel that the promoter has played down the significance of the wildlife corridor at Roseburn? Indeed, it would be folly for the promoter to do so, given that it is doing all that it can to protect anot...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
29 Mar 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Final Stage
No. As far as I can see, HMRI sets speed limits that are based on safety considerations; I suggest that amendment 8 would introduce a speed control for environmental reasons. The 40mph limit would not only limit the tram operators within the Roseburn corridor but would be set ...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
28 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
We heard Ms Raymond speak last week about comparisons between Roseburn and the route that we are considering now. Her comment was that the wildlife cycle corridor that we are talking about now is nowhere near as well used as the Roseburn corridor. Is it surprising that a defen...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Committee
14 Mar 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 2 puts into effect the undertaking given by the promoter to objectors in groups 34 and 45—the Roseburn corridor objectors and the friends of the Roseburn urban wildlife corridor—at the meeting on 27 September, when it was established during evidence taking that the b...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
29 Mar 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Final Stage
Thank you, Presiding Officer—I nearly called you "Speaker".Although I am a member of the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee, the views that I express are not those of the committee. During the committee's deliberation, I felt that 40mph would be a sufficient operating sp...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
13 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Let me expand my question, because I am being serious up to a point. Although Karen Raymond has had the benefit of covering the railway line there, the committee has looked only at the urban wildlife corridor in Roseburn. Can she describe how this corridor compares to Roseburn...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
19 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Finally, from visiting the route and examining the make-up of surrounding areas, I believe that there are questions about the patronage assumptions that have been made. Do you want me to take that issue up with Mr Buckman, or do you want to pick up on the point that 30 per cen...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
02 Mar 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
It is my lot to wind up on behalf of the committee. I start by thanking Jackie Baillie not only for the way in which she has convened the committee but for her comments at the beginning of this debate, when she outlined the limitations that the committee was faced with in addr...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
07 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Finally on ECHR matters, Mrs Milne pressed you on alternatives to the Roseburn route. You used the term "slight variation" in relation to the Roseburn route, but it is a key element of tramline 1. Might the promoter have cause to regret that it did not thoroughly check out alt...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
29 Mar 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill
I start by saying how sorry I am that my colleague Rob Gibson has not been called to speak; he had important points to make about construction programmes and noise, although we have heard quite a lot about that today. As I have only seven minutes in which to speak, I will star...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
May I confirm that you consider the Roseburn corridor—as it currently exists—to be an important wildlife and leisure corridor?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
25 Oct 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I accept your description of the tramway as a long and thin construction site. I think that, in an earlier discussion, you said that work on the tramway will be done section by section so that minimum disruption will occur. You said that the work on the Roseburn corridor will ...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
23 Nov 2006
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Preliminary Stage
This is my worst nightmare: I am having to speak in a consensual debate.The Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee and I believe that the proposal for the project is sound, but before I talk about some of the key aspects of the committee's report, it m...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
19 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I have a brief question. Mr Buckman, in response to Mrs Woolnough, you suggested that the reason for not assessing in any detail the objectors' proposed route was that you were convinced that the best options were those through Roseburn. Are you saying that there is no alterna...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
02 Nov 2004
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
The answer that Angus Walker has given suggests that my question was in order or would have been in order under the scope section of our questioning. I leave it on the table and come back to Mr Walker on the scope. What consideration was given to this matter, given the fact th...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
02 Nov 2004
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
For the Roseburn corridor, for example, it would be useful to see the width of areas that would be taken up by the tramline or the width of any cycle track, or the precise details of what vegetation would have to be removed, so that people can determine precisely what you have...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
23 Nov 2004
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
The principal area of segregation on tramline 1 is the Roseburn corridor. That area has also attracted most public protest. How important is the circular nature of the route?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
30 Nov 2004
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
From a personal point of view, I welcome that comment. There seems to be a lot of sense in the proposal.Would that continue along the line? Many of the objections to the scheme come from the Roseburn corridor area. Will the necessity of having a link in that area be considered?
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Committee
11 Jan 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
In your submission, Mrs Bourne, you suggested that walking and cycling had not been adequately assessed. You addressed that issue in a wider sense with respect to the closing off of areas during construction and the after-effects. It seems to me from the drawings, on the Roseb...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Jun 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Thank you.Although we are talking about badgers today, there are many other issues around the Roseburn corridor that could give the promoter some difficulty. Do you think that it would be appropriate for the promoter to take the principles of single tracking on board as an opt...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
19 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Okay, thank you.Another element that you raised was disruption during the construction period. How much weight did you place on that in selecting the Roseburn corridor as opposed to other routes?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
19 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I presume that capital costs do not take account of factors such as the cost of road closures and additional requirements during construction. Obviously, there will be a difference in that regard between the route that uses the Roseburn corridor and the one that involves on-st...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I would like to clarify your position with respect to vegetation and amenity, Ms Raymond. Is your job to ensure that minimal environmental damage occurs from the completion of tramline 1? Are you also there to advise on mitigation with respect to elements of the line, particul...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
At this point, then, there is nothing concrete other than the fact that the tram is going up the Roseburn corridor and your preference would be for that tram to stop at the front door of the hospital.
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Do you see an advantage for the Western general of a new tramline even if it were to use the Roseburn corridor?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
If you look at the map and consider the location of West Pilton, the configuration of the streets and the access to the Roseburn corridor, might it not be better for people to get to Crewe Toll by road? The road shows proximity to West Pilton, but it does not show accessibility.
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
28 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
In your advice on the full circuit, would the possibility of segregation be one reason why you might have favoured the use of the Roseburn corridor?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
03 Oct 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
You referred to the survey and you expressed disappointment that it was held during a period when children are on holiday. If the Roseburn corridor is, in fact, a leisure area, are there not likely to be more children around during holidays than during school terms—other than ...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
03 Oct 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
You allege that your route would take less time than the longer Roseburn route. Do you take encouragement that your view is proved by the fact that that has been shown to be the case at Starbank, where the time that is spent on the road is shorter than that in the wildlife cor...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
25 Oct 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
As you have used a personal situation to justify your comment, let me ask a further question. Did that house previously border a road of flowing traffic? Alternatively, did it border a lane like the Roseburn corridor, which is to some extent a nature reserve in the heart of th...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
25 Oct 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
The point that I really wanted to make is that, if a building is relatively mature, any damage that resulted during the two-year construction period in the Roseburn corridor would almost certainly be attributed to construction damage if it had not been assessed as creeping dam...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
07 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr Scrimgeour mentioned the natural aspects. I presume that, in the overall costings that have been presented to us for the scheme as a whole, there are definite costings for the provision of overhead lines in the Roseburn corridor area. Given the discussions that we have had ...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
07 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I did not use it—you did.I will move on. You said that speeds on the Roseburn corridor could reach 80kph. For the uneducated—such as me—what is 80kph in miles per hour?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
07 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Okay.I would like to pick up on another issue. Mrs Milne made an excellent point about wobble factors, children and the height of barriers. The barriers have not yet been defined, but the drawings for the Roseburn corridor include hedgeways as well as barriers. Barriers may ha...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
08 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
That certainly would be the case in the Roseburn corridor, although perhaps not in other tramline 1 areas.
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
08 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr Scrimgeour, you referred to maintenance being carried out only between 7 am and 7 pm, plump and plain. Is it your intention simply to stop the whole of tramline 1? What would happen if we applied your proposal to the Roseburn corridor and the whole way round the line? Such ...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
08 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I have a couple of observations to make. Mr Polson, I think that you are the first person to have come to the committee who has experience of the Roseburn corridor when trains ran there. Is that correct?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
05 Dec 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I point out that I am not suggesting that there should be 24-hour construction working on the Roseburn corridor.
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
05 Dec 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I am interested in the matter, because it has been accepted that environmental conditions, for example, in relation to wildlife, apply to the Roseburn corridor. That suggests that the construction timescale on that stretch of the route should be compressed to the minimum possi...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
14 Mar 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
At the committee's meetings on 3 October and 8 November, it heard extensive evidence on noise and vibration from the promoter and from objectors' witnesses. The committee also considered the promoter's approach to controlling noise and vibration, which is set out in the code o...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
07 Nov 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
From a viewpoint purely of safety, having heard today's evidence with regard to young children's current use, quite rightly, of the corridor and given your earlier comments about there not being much of a material change, do you think that, given the overhang dimensions, the m...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
05 Dec 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I will pursue the same line of questioning, referring to the police's letter. Perhaps Mr Scrimgeour will take some comfort from the emphasis that has been placed on providing prickly hedges once construction has taken place. I want to ask about the number of people who use the...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
14 Dec 2004
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
I am not sure what that means for the circular route's future. If the Leith extension were considered, would you drop the Granton extension and the route by Roseburn?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
19 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
So disruption during construction, including in the Roseburn area, is not a factor in all the deliberations on tramline 1.
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
19 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr Thomson referred to the importance of the retention of wildlife corridors, albeit perhaps in relation to an area other than Roseburn. How much weight do you place on the protection of wildlife corridors?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
19 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I would like to clarify Mr Harper's role. Have you costed the Roseburn and alternative schemes or have you costed the whole scheme so that comparisons can be made all the way around?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
I accept what you say about minimum damage. Did I detect that you gave support to the Roseburn route with some reluctance, although you did recognise that it was perhaps a better option than to use roadways in the area?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
28 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Comment was made about a bridge on your route that perhaps needs some work done on it to accommodate your envisaged tramlines. How does that compare with the bridges on the Roseburn line?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
25 Oct 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
It sounds as if, with regard to drainage, for a change people in Roseburn will get a benefit from the work that is to be done.
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
07 Feb 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill
Councillor Anderson has spoken about the importance of the committee clearing the way for the tramline. However, a difficulty that we face lies in the fact that the route in the bill is circular. All the arguments that we have heard have been based on the importance of the loo...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
07 Feb 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill
Mr Holmes or Mr Cross suggested earlier that there was potential for commencing phase 1—the Roseburn to Granton link—in line with the waterfront link. It would be difficult for you to take that on board if there was uncertainty about the final amount of money available. All ou...
The Convener: Con Committee
18 Sep 2006
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Preliminary Stage
Dialogue between you and the promoter would be helpful to clarify that situation. I thank all panel members for coming along to give their evidence.I invite the promoter's witnesses to take their places. Welcome again, gentlemen. The first panel will answer questions on access...
The Convener: Con Committee
18 Sep 2006
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Preliminary Stage
You talked about £1 million for the Airdrie to Bathgate corridor. Is that sum targeted into that area?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
27 Sep 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
There is one point that puzzles me slightly. It seems to me that you have concluded that the disruption of the wildlife and leisure corridor and the possible serious impact on the wildlife are a better solution than an on-road route. Is that correct?
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
05 Dec 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
Sorry, convener, but I have one brief question. Mr Hallam raised the issue of tram speeds of 50mph on the route. I accept that we will move from what is a quiet route to something different, but would it seem reasonable to you if we amended the bill to introduce a lower speed ...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
14 Mar 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage
During our scrutiny of the bill at the first phase of consideration stage, the committee agreed that the tram alignment should be amended in two areas of Edinburgh: at Haymarket Yards and at Ocean Terminal. In both cases, the committee agreed to the alignment change, as it was...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
26 Oct 2004
Low-cost Airlines <br />(European Commission Decision)
No, it is a European consultation paper to which the Department for Transport has responded by suggesting that current charging methods for corridor control costs should change. The Department for Transport's response seems to go against the operators of small planes on the ba...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
10 Sep 2002
New Petitions
I declare an interest as a former Fifer and somebody who is dead keen for Fife to retain autonomy under the different stages of local government reorganisation. We are talking about strategic planning, one of the major considerations of which is transport. Without a doubt, Fif...
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Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee, 02 Nov 2004

02 Nov 2004 · S2 · Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee
Item of business
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Preliminary Stage
Gallie, Phil Con South of Scotland Watch on SPTV
My point follows on from Rob Gibson's. There are discrepancies between the route as it is proposed and what happens in future. Perhaps I am extending beyond my remit, but when I look at the map of the route I am conscious that the area of most uncertainty is the Roseburn corridor. I do not know whether it is within your remit to comment on the fact that one of the objections that we have received refers to the possible usage of that corridor by tramline 2 vehicles for maintenance, laying-up, or whatever. To remove some of the uncertainties, the Roseburn corridor could perhaps be removed altogether, leaving tramline 2 to service the Haymarket route with tramline 1 stopping at Granton and going back. It seems to me that there is not a great population between the two ends of the Roseburn corridor that would use the tramline. I realise that I might be slightly out of bounds—

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The Convener: Lab
Agenda item 2 is consideration of a late objection. Members have a paper on the matter. We must first consider the reason for the lateness of the objection, ...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con
Given the confusion that surrounds some elements of the route, it is understandable that Ms Todd either misinterpreted the information or was not fully infor...
Rob Gibson (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): SNP
I agree.
The Convener: Lab
So members are happy to allow the objection as a late objection.Members indicated agreement.
The Convener: Lab
I now ask members to give preliminary consideration to the objection. Do members agree that the objection should go to the consideration stage for substantiv...
The Convener: Lab
The objection has been accepted and will be considered at the consideration stage.Agenda item 3 is to take oral evidence on the adequacy of the accompanying ...
Barry Cross (City of Edinburgh Council):
We do not have opening statements, madam.
The Convener: Lab
Excellent. You can come back.
Barry Cross:
We would rather not.
The Convener: Lab
That saves us time, for which I am grateful.I will kick off with a technical question on planning approval, so please bear with me. I understand that section...
Angus Walker (Bircham Dyson Bell):
That is right.
The Convener: Lab
You know what I am talking about, which is good.I understand that that means that planning permission will be granted automatically for development that is a...
Angus Walker:
That is not quite the case.
The Convener: Lab
Will you explain how the system works? What will be approved through the bill and what will go through the normal planning process?
Angus Walker:
As you say, section 70 is concerned with planning. By virtue of the permitted development order to which you referred, planning permission will be deemed to ...
The Convener: Lab
Take me, as a layperson, through the situation if the bill is passed. We have indicative drawings of where the tram stops will be. If we pass the bill, we wi...
Angus Walker:
Yes, more or less. Under the order, the only reasons that the planning authority can give for refusing or putting conditions on the subsequent approval is if...
The Convener: Lab
What are the limits of deviation that you mentioned?
Angus Walker:
They are defined in section 2. In essence, they are the perimeter of the area within which the works can take place. Although lines have been drawn on the pl...
The Convener: Lab
So we would be agreeing not only the route, but the margins of error.
Angus Walker:
In a way, yes.
The Convener: Lab
That is helpful to know.For the tramline that we saw in Nottingham, some of the wires are attached to buildings. Under the order, are such wires subject to t...
Angus Walker:
They are a prior approval development. Section 15 gives the power to attach equipment to buildings and section 70(4)(b) refers specifically to the issue. The...
The Convener: Lab
That clarity is helpful.As I said, all the tram stop locations on the maps with which we have been supplied are indicative. What discussions have you had wit...
Angus Walker:
Although, technically, the bill will allow the stops to be put anywhere, the design of the tram system is pretty much predicated on certain stop locations—th...
Barry Cross:
The issue of stop locations has exercised the City of Edinburgh Council, particularly the planning authority part, because tram stops need to relate to the u...
Angus Walker:
The design of the stops has been encapsulated in a document called the design manual. Although it is not one of the official accompanying documents, the coun...
The Convener: Lab
The committee already has copies of that document. Although it is not one of the official accompanying documents, it is of interest to us.
Phil Gallie: Con
It has been indicated that a considerable number of planning applications will have to be made during the course of construction. Given the importance of ens...
Angus Walker:
As I hoped that I had explained, the applications will not be full planning applications; they are a bit like reserved matters, if you know anything about pl...