This website has been created to publish the evidence-based, meticulously researched and credible submissions that the Scottish Government (Planning and Environmental Appeals Division (DPEA) has declined to upload, preventing them from being seen in the public domain.

These submissions were lodged in accordance with the Objective Connect tool, on time and in good faith. They are not minor objections, nor are they speculative or emotional responses. They are substantial, fact-checked and policy-backed documents addressing serious issues including major accident hazard, population and mental health impacts, consultation failures, traffic, road and bridge impacts, gas pipeline conflict, and matters of cultural heritage and military remains.

By declining to make these submissions publicly accessible, the DPEA has unfortunately denied communities and the wider public access to the full body of evidence. That is not openness. It is not transparency. And it is not what a public inquiry should be.

NOTKUP and the public have been disenfranchised and discriminated against by the exclusion of these materials from public view. When credible community evidence is withheld, communities are not merely being overlooked, they are being shut out of meaningful democratic participation.

Communities should not have to go to such extraordinary lengths simply to challenge what is seen as a lack of democratic transparency. Yet that is precisely why this website now exists … to ensure that evidence cannot be buried, public scrutiny cannot be diminished and community voices cannot be erased.

A public inquiry must be public in substance, not just in name.

If access to evidence is blocked, scrutiny is blocked too.

While this website exists to shine a light on documents the Scottish Government declines to release, it also features Community Hearing Session statements sent to us by many of the 100 or so people who are speaking out at Banchory, Tealing, Brechin and Kintore, ensuring their voices and concerns are heard.

ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

COMMUNITY HEARING STATEMENTS

CONSULTATION

CULTURAL HERITAGE

ENVIRONMENTAL INFO.

HEALTH

IMPACT STATEMENTS

MAJOR ACCIDENT HAZARD

MENTAL HEALTH

METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION

MILITARY REMAINS

NEED

SOCIO ECONOMICS

TRAFFIC / ROADS