ARGYLL and Bute Council has published details of how it plans to spend £1.17 million improving Helensburgh and Lomond’s roads network over the next 12 months.

Top priority in cash terms on the provisional list of work is the A817 Haul Road between Luss and Garelochhead, where the council plans to spend around £280,000.

The authority also intends to carry out improvement work worth £140,000 on West Montrose Street in Helensburgh, £129,500 on the B872 in Garelochhead, and £121,000 on Barbour Road in Kilcreggan.

A further £50,000 has been earmarked for improvements on two stretches of the A814 – in Ardoch, east of Cardross, and at Faslane – and £46,000 is due to be spent on Cobbler View, Mackenzie Avenue and Kirkfield Place in Arrochar.

Other Helensburgh streets where five-figure sums are expected to be invested during the 2018-19 financial year include John Street, East and West Princes Street, East Montrose Street, Kennedy Drive, Stafford Street, Glasgow Street, George Street, Duchess Park and Williamson Drive.

Details of Argyll and Bute’s roads capital reconstruction programme were considered by the council’s environment, development and infrastructure committee last week.

But in a report to the committee, Pippa Milne, the executive director for development and infrastructure, advised: “The proposed capital works programme is presented is based on carriageway condition [in] late autumn/early winter.

“With the effect of winter this programme may need to be adjusted to ensure that any investment is targeted accordingly.”

A further £84,250 has been earmarked for spending on footways in the Helensburgh and Lomond area for the 12 months from April onwards, though the report contains no further detail on which footways will be the focus of the spending programme.

The roads programme is based on a total funding allocation for Argyll and Bute of £8.632 million, agreed at the authority’s budget meeting last month.