From: Lis Phillips

I phoned Stewart Stevenson’s office today. His staff reported that a reply to our letters is with the minister at the moment for him to sign and everyone who wrote should get a reply in the next 7-10 days. I asked if it was just an acknowledgement letter, and she said no, that it was a ‘considered response’, but would not divulge any more than that!

Cheers
Lis

We received a copy of a letter Dave Thompson MSP sent to Stewart Stevenson, the Transport Minister. In his letter he has taken all our arguments and reiterated them to the minister.

 Letter from Dave Thompson MSP

Until now Stewart Stevenson had all letters from the community (from more than 74 households) as well letters from politicians like Dave Thompson MSP, Malcolm Reed, from Transport Scotland and Charles Kennedy MP.

I'm sure he's just considering his response, but so far nobody has had any reply from him.

Chris

We received a response from Bob Mitchell, Area Manager of Transport Scotland.

 Letter from Bob Mitchell from Transport Scotland

I've asked him to forward us a copy of the preliminary study. This under freedom of Information should take no longer than 20 days.

Chris

In today's Free Press there is an other article about our petition and progress.

In the article Charles Kennedy in a statement to the paper again voices his disappointment that no progress has been made.

For the full article see here:

Article from West Highland Free Press from 9th Nov 2007

Thanks for the support of the West Highland Free Press, MP Charles Kennedy and all residents of Breakish who sent a letter to the Transport Minister. Now we are anxious waiting for the positive response from Stewart Stevenson.

Chris

So far we had notification from 74 households in Breakish that sent the letter to Stewart Stevenson the Minister for Transport in Scotland.

As we have about 160 households we now have 46% who sent the letter!

A lot of the letters are very personalised and raise the issues with the road from all the angles and viewpoints.

Unfortunately no one seems to have had any reply from the Minister yet.

Chris

We received a letter for Charles Kennedy. He has received a response from Malcolm Reed from Transport Scotland. He says it's identified for action but no guarantee given.

Malcolm Reed has copied his response to the Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson.

Letter attached:

 Letter C Kennedy

As far as we are aware, no one has so far received a response from the Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson on this issue.

Chris