Development and Property Services

Roads and Transportation

Winter Maintenance

Before each winter season commences, a review is carried out of the service and improvements made where appropriate. The work is undertaken mainly by Roads Contracts, the in-house contractor, to criteria set out by the Head of Roads, based on statutory requirements.

Keeping East Ayrshire's Roads Open

East Ayrshire Council has statutory responsibilities, to take such steps as it considers reasonable, to prevent snow and ice endangering the safe passage of vehicles and pedestrians over public roads for which it is responsible.

Transport Scotland (a Department of the Scottish Executive) is the Roads Authority for all Trunk Roads in Scotland.
They have contracted Amey Highways Ltd. to provide a maintenance service (including winter) for the A76 Trunk Road and the A77 Trunk Road from the boundary with South Ayrshire at Spittalhill to Meiklewood interchange at the north end of Kilmarnock.

Connect Road Operators are responsible for providing a maintenance service (including winter) on the M77 Motorway and the adjacent A77 from Meiklewood Interchange to Malletsheugh Interchange in East Renfrewshire.

The adjacent A77 from Meiklewood to Floak at the boundary with East Renfrewshire is now the responsibility of East Ayrshire Council.

The contact telephone number for Trunk Roads is 0800 028 1414.

The adjacent Winter Maintenance menu on the right hand side links to pages that explain the priorities that the council has set for its winter road treatment programme.

How to contact us

During working hours, enquiries can be made as follows:

For the North Area (ex Kilmarnock and Loudoun): 01563 576310
For the South Area (ex Cumnock and Doon Valley): 01563 555330

Out with office hours, you can call the Roads and Lighting Faults (RALF) freephone number 0800 37 36 35.

Enquiries should not be made directly to depots.

TAKE EXTRA CARE AT ALL TIMES DURING THE WINTER AND AVOID NON-ESSENTIAL JOURNEYS DURING SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS.