Ralston Library is now open from 10 am until 1 pm and 2 pm until 5 pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The library is open for a “click and collect” service and for limited browsing.
The library will be closed on Saturday 25th September for the autumn public holiday.
The Community Facilities Team at Renfrewshire Leisure has provided the following contact details for the Ralston Community Centre and the Ralston Community Sports Centre.
“The contact for ourselves for the community centre is only our email as we are working from home and do not have work phones at the moment – comfac.els@renfrewshire.gov.uk and the contact for the sports centre is 0141 618 5700; however, this is only available in the evenings and weekends.”
Renfrewshire Council has issued notice of the following waiting and loading ban.
Glasgow Road, Paisley – North side from the junction with Arkleston Road westwards for approx. 105m.
This closure/ban will be in force on Sunday 19th September 2021.
Reason for Restriction: Ironwork Repairs.
Renfrewshire Leisure (RL) is planning for community facilities to be available again by mid September.
After receiving confirmation from Renfrewshire Council that its community facilities can re-open with appropriate safety measures in place, RL issued booking forms last week to previous users of facilities, detailing the new conditions of let to manage Covid-19 safety.
RL has asked for forms to be returned by 27th August and expects to be able to start confirming bookings from this date, to enable lets to commence by mid September, if not before.
Renfrewshire Council’s Team Up To Clean Up team is holding another month-long clean up event in September 2021. Last year, despite the pandemic, 225 litter picks took place and 1,072 bags of litter were collected by volunteers and removed by the council’s StreetScene team.
Details of this year’s event, and how to take part in it, can be found on the Renfrewshire Council website.
Renfrewshire Council has issued the following road closure notice.
Road Closure: Buchlyvie Road, Paisley between School Road and house no.74
Renfrewshire Council has been awarded funding from Sustrans Scotland’s “Places for Everyone” programme to look at improvements to the junction outside the main entrance to Barshaw Park, where Glasgow Road meets Arkleston Road and Hawkhead Road.
As this is a well-used route for both the park and commuting, the council wants to ensure that people can use this junction safely as a cyclist or pedestrian; so it has identified three possible options for upgrades that it would like your opinion on.
Option 1 – Unidirectional (2 traffic lanes going North/South)
Option 2 – Unidirectional (1 traffic lane going North/South)
Option 3 – Protected Junction
All options offer landscaping and improvements to the surrounding area around the junction.
You can see the full technical drawings on the council’s website at www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/BarshawParkJunction
The council wants to ensure that local residents, businesses and road users have the opportunity to put forward their thoughts on the potential improvements and asks you to fill out the survey on the above web page.
The survey will run from Monday 9 August 2021 to Sunday 5 September 2021.
If you are not able to fill out the online survey, you can submit your feedback or any questions in writing to Environment and Infrastructure, Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley, PA1 1BR, or by emailing ei@renfrewshire.gov.uk.
Once it receives all submissions, the council will analyse the feedback, and this will inform any decision made around improvements to the junction.
The council will endeavour to keep you, and all interested in this project, updated regularly on the next steps.
If you require further information, please email ei@renfrewshire.gov.uk.
Renfrewshire Council has issued the following road closure notice.
Road Closure: Renfrew Road R/A to Netherhill (West Bound) – Overnight Works with carriageway returned to traffic during the day. Road closed between Lochore Avenue roundabout and Netherhill Road, approx 3,500sqm. Carriageway shall be opened to traffic by 7am daily and the site shall be left in a sound state with all vertical surfaces & raised ironwork suitably ramped and signed.
The closure starts at 8 pm.
All residents in Scotland under the age of 22 will be eligible for free bus travel from 31 January 2022.
The Scottish Government has confirmed the timetable for the roll out of the scheme, delivered in partnership with the Improvement Service, the National Entitlement Card Programme Office and Young Scot.
Legislative changes to allow the scheme to be extended from its original commitment to provide free travel for under-19s will be introduced to the Scottish Parliament this summer.
Approximately 930,000 young people will join the third of Scotland’s population who already benefit from free bus travel through the Older and Disabled Persons Free Bus scheme.
Further details can be found on the Transport Scotland website.
Renfrewshire Council has issued the following road closure notice.
Temporary Road Closure: A761 Glasgow Road, Paisley, from Arkleston Road to Oldhall Road
The closure appears to apply only to the eastbound carriageway (towards Glasgow), although the notice doesn’t state this.
There are also a Temporary Loading and Waiting Ban notice and two Temporary No Right Turn notices (Alton Road at the Glasgow Road junction; Gartmore Road at the Glasgow Road junction). All the notices can be seen on the Renfrewshire Council website.