News on Balloch Proposals

On Wednesday evening an event was held in the National Park Headquarters in Balloch where the outline designs for the Balloch Street Design project were presented to an audience of over 50 people.

This community-led street design process, which has been looking at improving areas around the station and in the town centre, is a partnership between Sustrans Scotland, West Dunbartonshire Council and Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority. The outline designs have been guided and influenced by the valuable and constructive feedback received from the public consultation events held over the last few months.

During the evening, staff from Sustrans and West Dunbartonshire Council provided an update on the progress in the designs following consultation and on the timelines and process moving forward. The Council will develop detailed designs for delivery over the next few years.

Photo credit: Gary Ellis Photography

They are aiming for the first of the projects to be constructed early in 2018 and provided an indicative project delivery timeline below:

STAGE 1: Design development (June – Dec 2017)

STAGE 2: Village Square and Balloch Rd West delivery (Jan – April 2018)

STAGE 3: Station Square technical design (Jan – April 2018)

STAGE 4: Station Square delivery (Nov 2018 – Mar 2019)

Audience members were given the opportunity to raise any questions they had on the street design plans with several questions posed around parking and the potential impact the street design project could have on this.

Photo credit: Gary Ellis Photography