We are very frustrated to have to report a delay of one year to the project to upgrade and improve the High Street in Queensferry.

Work has been ongoing over the last year to develop detailed plans for the new High Street. It comes after two round of consultation where residents were able to feed in their ideas.

The final consultation is now due to take place in April. However, the significant changes planned for traffic control, parking and servicing of the shops mean new traffic regulation orders will be needed.

This means the construction tender is now expected to be issued in the autumn of this year with site works to start in early 2020. This represents a delay of about a year.

We have written to the Council’s local transport manager about the extremely poor communication around this delay. It is frustrating given all the hard work to engage residents on what should be an exciting project for the Ferry over the last year.