T(or not)In The Park

Ironically I would be sad if the festival didn't happen at all as many music lovers will miss out.  I'm just very disappointed that they have picked somewhere so sensitive - surely there's somewhere in Scotland more suitable where they aren't going to make such an impact?

I should also stress that in many respect the organisers haven't remotely earned the right to make any profit for it!

Clare - the venue was moved from Balado because of safety concerns -  substantial concerns were raised by health and safety inspectors about an oil pipeline which runs underneath the site, near Kinross.

Surely Scotland has enough room for ospreys and for T in the Park which has become a major national music event.

Unknown said:

Clare - the venue was moved from Balado because of safety concerns -  substantial concerns were raised by health and safety inspectors about an oil pipeline which run underneath the site, near Kinross.

Surely Scotland has enough room for ospreys and for T in the Park which has become a major national music event.

Not if it's going to disturb the Ospreys, as they are a Schedule 1 protected species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

Clare Bailey said:

Scare tactics.

I'd love to know what festival goers were doing at their previous site to be forced to move in the first place.

Clare, the original site at Balado was fields next to the A9.  They discovered a corroding oil pipe under ground which became a health and safety risk to humans and had to more the site elsewhere.  The problem is that previously the site was flat fields next to the a9 "motorway" with little disturbance to wildlife, however the new site of Strathallan Estate is prime wildlife countrypark  site and an entirely different environment but one which would bring the said estate a huge amount of income to keep it going.

THOMO - I did mean that there must be room in Scotland for the TITP festival in a location which does not disturb ospreys. Clearly this location is not a good one. I would prefer the festival take place elsewhere.

Unknown said:

The problem is that previously the site was flat fields next to the a9 "motorway"

The A9 was certainly not a motorway the last time I looked!  It's an interesting mixture of an incredibly scenic road and an absolute nightmare in terms of holding onto your patience.

For the record, Balado, former site of TiTP, is nearest to the M90, not the A9

Clare the A9 is the main arterial route from Edinburgh to Inverness  via the stirling road classed as motorway as it pass through the Auchterarder  etc and up to Perth. As Emma says M90 it is close to but very obvious for camp site on m90 which is  Edinburgh Fife and onto perth and Kinross route a road I drive every week and joins the A9 at perth 

I just class the whole route as A9 as laziness  

M9 runs from Ratho, Edinburgh to Junction 11 Stirling (very near Dunblane which was in the news this weekend for Andy Murray's wedding), thereafter it becomes the A9 which runs all the way from Stirling to Thurso in the north of Scotland, passing through Inverness on the way. This road does not go near Balado, former site of TiTP

Residents join fight to save T in the park