Storm Eowyn

 

 

Storm Eowyn – Clean up operation

Saturday 25 January 2025 10:30am

 

Following extensive damage in the wake of Storm Eowyn our operatives are working in conjunction with East and South Ayrshire Council, Police Scotland and Scottish Power to co-ordinate clear up operations throughout our road network.

 

Whilst the Met Office Red weather warning has passed, Yellow warnings are in place for snow and ice, therefore our gritters will be out from 4pm this evening. However due to the nature of Storm Eowyn many roads may continue to remain hazardous due to fallen trees and dangerous building. We urge the travelling public to exercise extreme caution if travelling today as roads may be icy and advanced warning signage may not be in place.

 

Occurring incidents should be reported to the following numbers:

Emergency services: In life-threatening situations, dial 999 immediately.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran: 111

East Ayrshire Council: 0345 724 0000

South Ayrshire Council: 0300 123 0900

Scottish Water: 0800 077 8778

Scottish Power: 105


 

 

People urged to stay at home

Friday 24 January 2025 16:50pm

 

Police Scotland is urging the public to follow travel advice as the impacts from Storm Eowyn continue to be felt.  

The Met Office’s Red weather warning expires at 5pm and an Amber warning for high winds will be in place until 9pm for the central and southern / border areas and 6am on Saturday 25 January for north of the central belt. People should continue to avoid travel during the adverse weather.

East Ayrshire Council and the Ayrshire Roads Alliance are urging people to follow this advice.  The situation remains extremely dangerous.  

Storm Eowyn has had a significant impact across East Ayrshire and caused widespread disruption, especially to our road network.

Fallen trees and damaged buildings are significantly impacting the roads network. There are a significant number of road blockages and not all locations are known.  Due to the red weather warning restriction on travel, Ayrshire Roads Alliance has been unable to attend these incidents therefore please be aware that warning signage is not in place.

A yellow warning for snow and ice is in place from midnight, Friday 24 January until 11am Saturday 25 January. Ayrshire Roads Alliance has identified critical priority routes to be gritted but significant sections of our road network will remain untreated, due to ongoing adverse conditions. People are therefore urged to exercise extreme caution if they are driving.

The clear up will only be able to take place during daylight, and the Council and Ayrshire Roads Alliance teams will be operating across the area at the weekend.  Thank you for your patience and understanding during these unprecedented conditions.

The ongoing issues will also affect bin collection services planned for Saturday 25 January. If your residual waste collection was missed today, Friday 24 January, please present your bin before 6.30am on Saturday and every effort will be made to collect it.

Safety inspections are planned for all Council facilities, including schools, over the weekend.


 

Reported incidents: 

 

Road Closure 

Access road to Ayrshire Athletics Arena, off of Queens Drive, Kilmarnock (Queens Drive is open)

Montgomerie Street, Girvan - CLEARED

 

Fallen Trees

A70 Barrhill Road at Butehill Care Home - CLEARED

A70, Coalhall - CLEARED

A70 Coylton to Coalhall - CLEARED

A70, Coylton to Drongan - CLEARED

A70, Coylton to Hillhead - CLEARED

A70, Dumfries House, Cumnock - CLEARED

A70 Killoch, Coalhall - CLEARED

A70, Muirkirk - CLEARED

A70 Manse Road, Muirkirk

A71, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

A71 Loudounhill

A71, Mayfield Industrial Estate - CLEARED

A71, Moorfield - CLEARED

A78 on slip to Loans - CLEARED

A714 Ash Cottage - CLEARED

A714, Pinwherry to Barrhill, Barhill

A719 Galston Road -  CLEARED

A719 Electric Brae, Ayr - CLEARED

A719, Hurlford

A719 near junction for Carnell Estate - CLEARED

A719 Whitletts near Travelodge - CLEARED

A735 Dunlop to Lugton - CLEARED

A735 Dunlop just after rail bridge - CLEARED

A759, Dundonald - CLEARED

B705, Kirkmichael

B706, Dunlop

B706 over Lugton Burn - CLEARED

B741 (at the railway bridge), Girvan

B741, Heading towards New Cumnock

B741 White Buridge junction

B742 Meadowhead to Annbank 

B742 and A713 to Dalrymple 

B743, Ayr Road, Mauchline - CLEARED

B743 Barr Valley Road - CLEARED

B743 Auchencruive - CLEARED

B743 Barr to Pinwherry

B743, Dalrymple

B743 roundabout at the A77, heading towards Mossblown - CLEARED

B743, Mauchline - CLEARED

B743 Mossblown to Tarbolton - CLEARED

B743 Pennyvenie Bing

B743, Whitletts to Mossblown - CLEARED

B749, Troon

B750 Kilmarnock Road, Dundonald - CLEARED

B751, Kilmaurs - CLEARED

B769 Old Glasgow Road - CLEARED

B769 Kirkland

B769, Stewarton - CLEARED

B7024 Culroy to Minishant - CLEARED

B7027 Knowe Road, Barrhill - CLEARED

B7034, Dalrymple - CLEARED

B7036 Barony Road, Ochiltree - CLEARED

B7034 Garden Street - CLEARED

B7037, Galston - CLEARED

B7037 Galston to Sorn - CLEARED

B7042 Neither Auchendrain - CLEARED

B7045, Kirkmichael Road, Kirkmichael - CLEARED

B7045 Aitkenhead Mill - CLEARED

C3 Springs Road - CLEARED

C46 Kirkmichael Road, Maybole - CLEARED

C50 Brackenhill Road

C58 Crosshill - CLEARED

C105 Balvaird Road, Kirkoswald - CLEARED

U33, Newmilns - CLEARED

U746 opposite access to Pluck Holdings - CLEARED

U746 Cumnock

U7027 Dornal - CLEARED

Annick Crescent and Riverside Gardens, Stewarton

Auchinleck Crescent, Stewarton - CLEARED

Ayr Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Balcomie Crescent, Troon - CLEARED

Balsgrath to Straiton 

Balsgrath Road - CLEARED

Bailey Drive, Logan

Bank Road, Ayr

Barbadoes Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Barhill Boundry - CLEARED

Barhill Terrace, Cumnock - CLEARED

Bellfield Avenue, Hurlford

Bormhill Quadrant 

Brockwellmuir Cottage, between Dunlop and Lugton - CLEARED

Broom Place, Kilmarnock 

Butlins Road - CLEARED

Castlehill Gardens, Ayr 

Castlehill roundabout, Ayr - CLEARED

Castle Stewart Walk, Troon - CLEARED

Campbell Street East, Darvel

Cessnock Road, Galston - CLEARED

Cloverhill, Ayr

Corsehill Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Craigie Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Craigie Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Craig Lee Crescent, Bellsbank

Culroy to Minishant - CLEARED

Culzean to Maidens - CLEARED

Culzean Crescent, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Cunningham Drive, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Dalgleish Avenue, Cumnock

Dalmellington Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Dean Castle Country Park

Dublin Road, Darvel - CLEARED

Dundonald - CLEARED

Dungavel Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Drumley Farm, Mossblown - CLEARED

East Road, Prestwic - CLEARED

Emrys Avenue, Cumnock - CLEARED

Ewenfield Place, Ayr - CLEARED

Fenwick Road - CLEARED

Findlay Avenue, Ayr - CLEARED

George McTurk Court

George Terrace, Cumnock 

Gibson Street, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Glasgow Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Glen Crescent, Darvel 

Glenalla Crescent, Doonfoot

Grassyards Road on slip to A77 Southbound, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Guiltreehill, Ayr 

High Street, Newmilns - CLEARED

Howard Park

Holmhead Road, Cumnock

Hurlford Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Isle of Pin, Troon

Irvine Road, Dalespark - CLEARED

Kay Park Crescent, Kilmarnock

Kincaidston Drive, Ayr - CLEARED

Kingsford, Stewarton - CLEARED

Kilmarnock Road, Kilmaurs - CLEARED

Kirkland Road, Darvel

Kirkford, Stewarton - CLEARED

Kirkmichael to Crosshill - CLEARED

Kirkmichael to Straiton Road Cairn Castle - CLEARED

Kirkmichael Road, Maybole - CLEARED

Kirktonholm Place, Kilmarnock

Laburnum Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

London Road, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

London Road bridge - CLEARED

Longbank Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Main Street, Monkton

Main Street, Prestwick - CLEARED

Main Street, Sorn - CLEARED

Manse Road, Muirkirk

Maybole Road, Ayr 

Maybole to Ayr 

McBeath Gardens, Stewarton - CLEARED

Millar Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Millbrae, Drongan - CLEARED

Moorfield to Q8 - CLEARED

Monktonhill Road, Troon

Monument Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Mount Carmel Primary School

Neilston Road, Dunlop - CLEARED

Neilston Place 

Nelson Road, Dunlop - CLEARED

Park Terrace, Stewarton 

Peatland Quadrant

Phillips Square, Ayr - CLEARED

Pollock Morris Drive, Crosshouse - CLEARED

Railway Crossing at Dailly - CLEARED

Racecourse Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Ronaldshaw Park, Ayr - CLEARED

Roman Road, Ayr - CLEARED

Riverside Gardens, Stewarton - CLEARED

Scott Crescent and Aird Avenue, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

South Beach Lane, Troon

Southwood - CLEARED

Southcosbie House, Troon

Straiton to Balbeg Road - CLEARED

Straiton to Kirkmichael - CLEARED

Straiton Primary School - CLEARED

Summerville Street, Catrine

Symington Road North, Symington

Symington Primary - CLEARED

Tarbolton Road, Mossblown - CLEARED

The Beaches, Coylton - CLEARED

The Loaning, Ayr - CLEARED

Tinto Avenue, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Townend, Kilmaurs - CLEARED

Turner Place, Kilmarnock

Viaduct Road, Dalrymple - CLEARED

Westheads Farm, Newmilns - CLEARED

Woodside, Dailly 

 

Barrier damage

A70 Coylton - CLEARED

 

Damaged Power Line

A71 South of Crossroads Carnell Estate

B742 A713 to Dalrymple

B743 Dalrymple

Borrmhill Quadrant

 

Damaged Traffic Lights

Hillfoot Road to Holmston Roundabout, Ayr - CLEARED

Walker Road, Ayr - CLEARED

 

Debris on Road/Footpath

A70 Main junction of Style - CLEARED

A79 Monkton Road roundabout - CLEARED

A719 Carnell - CLEARED

B743 Mossblown to Failford 

C17 Westport - CLEARED

C50 Brackenhill Road - CLEARED

Angus Avenue, Prestwick - CLEARED

Annbank Primary - CLEARED

Cairn View, Muirkirk - CLEARED

Central Avenue, Troon - CLEARED

Dewalden Drive - CLEARED

East Mains Street, Darvel - CLEARED

Forbes Place, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Hayhill, Sinclairston

Heather Park, Ayr

John Street, Ayr - CLEARED

London Road Pay and Display Car Park, Kilmarnock

Loudoun Road, Mauchline - CLEARED

Main Road, Fenwick

Mauchline Road, Auchinleck 

MClelland Drive, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

St Germain Street, Catrine

Straiton Monument 

Take a Bow pedestrian footpath - CLEARED

The Style, Muirkirk - CLEARED

Walker Road, Ayr

West Langlands Street, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

Riccarton Road, Hurlford

 

Fallen Lighting Column

Bentinick Crescent, Troon - CLEARED

Gala Bingo Hall, Kilmarnock - CLEARED

 

Oil on road

Croft Street, Tarbolton - CLEARED

 

Road traffic Incident

B743 Ayr Road, Mauchline - CLEARED

 

Flooding

Aftonbridge, New Cumnock - CLEARED

Alison Street and John Street underpass 

Saltpans Road, Newton on Ayr - CLEARED

Wood Court, Troon - CLEARED

Wood Road, Troon - CLEARED

Kidz Play Car Park , Prestwick - CLEARED

Barrhill School - CLEARED

 

Unsafe building

Ayr Street, Troon - CLEARED

North Harbour Street, Ayr - CLEARED

Town Hall, Troon - CLEARED

 

Unsafe bus shelter

Main Road, Fenwick - CLEARED


 

Emergency contacts:

Emergency services: In life-threatening situations, dial 999 immediately.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran: 111

East Ayrshire Council: 0345 724 0000

South Ayrshire Council: 0300 123 0900

Scottish Water: 0800 077 8778

Scottish Power: 105

Contact information 

Phone: 01563 503 160

E-mail: enquiries@ayrshireroadsalliance.org

Address:  Ayrshire Roads Alliance, Opera House, 8 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1DD