PROTESTERS campaigning against a new road will march to show their opposition to the plan.

Tomorrow community activists will rally against the proposed £21.6m Cathkin relief road which is to be built over one of the last remaining green belts in the Rutherglen area.

Organisers of the event claim that the road will lead to nowhere and is a waste of £21m worth of taxpayers money.

They also say that the destruction of the popular recreational ground is “outrageous”.

Anger has also stemmed from the fact that many locals were of the belief that it was a protected greenbelt in which many of the local children have helped plant trees and shrubs in over the last 12 years.

Alan McClennan, who is involved in the organisation of the march, said: “We have lots of grievances with the planned road.

"First of all it’s not needed, secondly we think it’s a waste of of £21 million worth of public money and thirdly it’s going to destroy a perfectly good park that was only built in 2001.

“They are saying that there is too much traffic on the local road which it just not true.

"They have based those stats on 2007 records and the M74 has opened since then so it’s obviously skewed.”

Alan and the organisers are confident of a good showing at the march.

Their online petition has gained 1377 signatures and there has been at least 475 written objections to the planning department.

He said: “We are hoping there will be a couple of hundred their at least.

“The residents of High Burnside did not choose to live on a main road so why should they be forced to do so now.”

The march against the Cathkin relief road will take place tomorrow at 11am on Laurel Walk Rutherglen South Lanarkshire.