Roads Issues
A81 south from Edmonstone Hall
Strathblane Community Council – Roads issues
Here you will find Strathblane Community Council Road information. Roads Issues are dealt with by our Roads Correspondent. This includes all road related issues including safety, speeding, potholes and defects, parking and any other problems.
Traffic calming proposals September 2026
September’s Blane Valley Bulletin including Traffic Calming insert is now online here. Thanks to the many residents who provided comments on these proposals from Stirling Council.
As a result of a long campaign by the Community Council backed by the results of the Local Place Plan consultation, we received the following information about proposed traffic calming measures on the A81.
Proposed Road Safety Improvements – A81 Blanefield & Strathblane
Stirling Council has a statutory duty under the Road Traffic Act 1988 to prepare and carry out programmes to promote road safety, study local traffic collisions and take steps to prevent them. Under this duty a programme of traffic surveys was undertaken in late 2025 across all village locations subject to a 20mph speed limit within the Stirling Council area.
This traffic survey information was analysed and weighted for traffic volumes and speeds, before being combined with the five -year collision data to the end of 2025 which was weighted for collision and casualty severity as well as the involvement of vulnerable road users. The analysis of this data produced a score and ranking for each village location, providing a priority list for the consideration of traffic calming measures. Due to budget restrictions, only those villages at the top of the priority list can be considered in the 2026/27 financial year, Blanefield and Strathblane being one such location. To reduce vehicle speeds on the A81 through Blanefield and Strathblane, particularly at potential conflict points, several raised table junctions are proposed. These will be located at the following junctions on the A81:
• Milngavie Road with Dumbrock Road.
• Milngavie Road with Campsie Road and Glasgow Road, mini roundabout to be retained.
• Glasgow Road with Kirkhouse Road, mini roundabout to be retained.
• Glasgow Road with Campsie Dene Road.
• Glasgow Road with Netherblane.
• Glasgow Road with Ballewan Crescent.
In addition to the raised table junctions, the existing pedestrian crossing point to the west of the junction with Wester Leddigreen Road will also be placed onto a raised table maintaining the existing priority system arrangement. Each raised table will include the following features:
• Table will be raised 75mm above existing carriageway level.
• Ramps to be installed on all approaches at 1.5m wide providing a gradient of 1 in 20.
• Kerb upstand through raised table to be 25mm apart from at the tactile paving crossing points which will be maximum of 6mm upstand.
• All existing junction ‘Give Way’ and mini roundabout markings will be reinstated on new raised tables.
• All gullies will be adjusted to new carriageway levels.
The existing 20mph speed limit from a point approximately 20 metres north-west of the junction of the A81 and Netherblane to the existing 20mph speed limit extents approximately 75 metres to the south of the junction between the A81 and Dumbrock Road will be converted to a 20mph zone thereby allowing the installation of ‘Traffic calmed area’ signs to be erected at each entry point.A series of drawings showing the proposed raised table junctions, is enclosed for your information.
Pavement Parking
What to do if you have a complaint/see a problem
The first approach should always be made to Stirling Council roads department at https://www.stirling.gov.uk/roads-transport-and-parking/roads-and-pavements/ . If you feel you are not getting results, then contact the Strathblane Community Council. On the whole, however, the council do seem to be quite responsive to issues raised, so you are not wasting your time contacting them. The Strathblane Community Council is not in a position to be involved in every matter raised.
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