Aberdeenshire Council’s infrastructure services committee chairman, Peter Argyle, said he was “unimpressed” by that timing and has written to the Scottish Government’s transport minister Michael Matheson to say so.
He said: “I didn’t think it was appropriate to put out something of this significance four days before Christmas, particularly for people living in the corridor of the proposed route just before what was going to be a fairly challenging Christmas anyway.”
Mr Argyle said: “I didn’t think that was in any sense, way, shape or form appropriate.
“The first thing we knew of the consultation was when it was launched by the council.”
Mr Argyle has asked for an extension to the mid-February response deadline in order for each of the affected area committees to be fully consulted.
