Cole-Hamilton: Decision on Aberdeen RAAC rehoming will turn hundreds of lives upside down

Responding to Aberdeen City Council’s decision to move out the residents of more than 500 homes as soon as possible, including 364 council properties, following independent structural engineers' detailed investigations into the presence of the potentially dangerous concrete RAAC, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:

“Since I first raised this issue with the First Minister almost a year ago, the Scottish Government has been astonishingly cavalier about the presence of dangerous concrete across the country.

“Today’s news will turn the lives of hundreds of people upside down. It will be incredibly worrying that the roof above their head could pose a danger to them.

“It flies in the face of the government’s litany of excuses and insistence that there is nothing to see here. Scottish Liberal Democrats have helped uncover the presence of this dangerous concrete in schools, hospitals, universities, colleges, fire and police stations.

“We need to know what how this report and decision will impact on the continued use of all of these buildings across Scotland. People deserve to know what is going on.”