LABOUR councillor for Saltcoats and Stevenston Alan Munro is demanding answers from North Ayrshire Council over the withdrawn Three Towns supercampus project.

Last week, The Herald reported that the Council is to embark on fresh consultation over a replacement school for the Three Towns after the plans to build a supercampus were shelved.

The Garnock Valley supercampus was approved this week after five years of wrangling and last week plans to provide a new school in Largs were announced.

However, Cllr Munro says he wants to know what happened to the money for the Three Towns project.

Commenting this week he said: “I have written to the SNP Leader Cllr Willie Gibson, asking him for clarity on the status of the Three Towns campus.” “The SNP’s attempt to build a new secondary school and replacement primary schools in Ardrossan was abandoned in October 2013, but there has never been any formal statement from the SNP on what happened to the money allocated to the project or any discussion of a possible new site for the much needed new schools.

“We now learn that the Council is proposing to build a Campus in Largs.” “Does this mean that there will now be no replacement for the ageing schools in the Three Towns?

"If so the SNP will pay a high price for their incompetence in losing the Three Towns Campus and for their lack of transparency in this matter.

“I have no quarrel with the parents and pupils of Largs.

"They need the new schools as much as we do in the Three Towns, but it is not on for the SNP to try to hide their abject failure to keep their promises to the people of Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston in this way.” North Ayrshire Council has said: “We are making good progress with our strategic review of education and the future of educational provision throughout North Ayrshire’s neighbourhoods, including that of the Three Towns.

“We are continuing to undertake extensive consultation with everyone who has an interest in learning in North Ayrshire – including pupils, parents and staff as well as the wider community.

“The feedback from all of these stakeholders will help inform the review process and the outcome report will be presented to the Council’s Cabinet for consideration in early 2015.”