THE consultation on traffic management and parking in Saltcoats town centre has now drawn to a close.

The survey, originally designed to last for one month, was extended for a further four weeks due to the level of interest shown. Councillor Jean McClung, SNP Councillor for Saltcoats, instigated the consultation following complaints from numerous constituents about what they perceived to be inherent dangers in traffic flow in the town.

Councillor McClung told the Herald: “The level of response to the survey has been very encouraging. Since its launch I have been contacted by numerous constituents who wished to give their input, and several have attended my surgeries, to complain, in particular, about the system currently operating in Dockhead Street. I have been told that the matter has been the ‘talk of the town’.”

The paper copies and online responses are now being analysed, and the results of the survey will then be used to come to a decision on the way forward for traffic management and parking provision in Saltcoats.

Cllr McClung added: “I wish to thank personally the members of Saltcoats Community Council who helped with the survey.

“Many of them gave up their time to canvass opinions in the street, and go round local businesses delivering copies of the survey.

“I would also like to thank Councillor Davina McTiernan for distributing and collecting copies of the survey within her Stevenston Ward.

“Without their support I would have been ‘run ragged’.”