Much-needed carriageway resurfacing has been completed at a residential street in Newton Mearns.
Lochbroom Drive was in a very poor condition over a long-period and with potholes present across the surface of the road.
Eastwood MSP, Jackson Carlaw had called on East Renfrewshire Council to resurface the road and wrote to the local authority in January to ask that permanent repairs be considered during the incoming financial year.
The council’s Environment Service responded to advise that Lochbroom Drive was under consideration for inclusion in the next annual carriageway resurfacing programme for 2023/24.
In April, it was then confirmed by the council that Lochbroom Drive would be resurfaced in the new financial year.
In 2022/23, local roads where Mr Carlaw had called for major repairs at Brackenrig Crescent in Waterfoot, Ailsa Drive in Giffnock, Gloucester Avenue in Clarkston and a section of Beech Avenue in Newton Mearns were resurfaced.
The resurfacing scheme at Lochbroom Drive in Newton Mearns was carried out between Monday 19th and Thursday 29th June.
Lochbroom Drive can be accessed from the Ayr Road.
Scottish Conservative MSP for Eastwood, Jackson Carlaw said:
“In the previous year, I was delighted to see resurfacing work completed at residential streets in Eastwood that were in a long-standing derisory condition including Brackenrig Crescent, Ailsa Drive and Beech Avenue.
“The need to repair badly damaged surfaces and restore the condition of roads that are in a state of disrepair remains a major priority for many of my constituents.
“It was a concern to receive constituent correspondence highlighting that Lochbroom Drive was in a particularly bad state and required permanent repair work to bring the road back up to an acceptable standard.
“I contacted the council to relay that the Newton Mearns road would benefit from a programme of permanent repairs and to ask for resurfacing to be arranged at Lochbroom Drive.
“It is welcome that Lochbroom Drive made it on to the final list of roads to undergo carriageway resurfacing and with the work taking place in the early months of the current financial year.”