Consultation on Better Streets for Dumfries Town Centre

This consultation is now closed.

Have your say on ideas aimed at creating safer, more pleasant and more accessible spaces for everyone to walk, wheel or cycle as well as improved delivery access.

Dumfries is a historic and attractive market town with a good selection of independent shops, striking buildings and public spaces which reflect the town's significant cultural heritage. One of the main ways to enhance its appeal to residents and visitors is to make it easier for everyone to move around the town centre. When town centre streets are improved, people tend to spend more time in them - good news for local people and businesses alike.

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Better Streets

Several parts of the town centre have been identified for improvement by transport consultants SYSTRA on behalf of Swestrans and Dumfries and Galloway Council, based on local feedback and issues identified in the Dynamically Different Dumfries project which was led by Dumfries Partnership Action Group. 

The consultants have created design concepts to show what these improvements could look like.

The schemes

1. Rail Station to High Street
2. Shakespeare Street to English Street
3. High Street and Church Street Crescent
4. Academy Street
5. Nith Avenue, George Street and Irving Street
6. Irish Street
7. Buccleuch Street and Bridge
8. St. Michael's Roundabout
9. Leafield Street / Brooms Road Roundabout
10. St. Mary's Street and Cornwall Mount

How to have your say

To decide which designs move to the next stage of development, and what changes might be needed, feedback from local people and businesses is essential.

Survey

This consultation is now closed.

View the scheme drawings

Hard copies are available for those who are unable to use the online survey. You can find these at Ewart Library in Dumfries.

Find out more 

Go to the Storymap resource created for the project to view full scheme details, including sliders showing "before and after" images of each suggested improvement.

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What happens next?

The project team will look at all the feedback received, make any changes to the favoured designs then ask local residents and businesses to feed back again. Once any designs are finalised, additional external funding would be needed before any work could take place.

Please note that other studies looking at flood protection and parking needs in Dumfries are not linked to these proposals, although any early findings from these projects will be considered.

Get in touch  

The project team will report back on the survey and drop-in events on this page.

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