Improving the area around the King's Theatre and Tarvit Street
About the project
We're working with the King’s Theatre Refurbishment project and other stakeholders to develop improvements to the public space around the theatre.
This part of the project will
- help deliver the Theatre’s aim to create step free access (from street to seat) through the main entrance for all patrons and visitors
- deliver our plans for improving the public spaces around the Theatre
- increase pavement areas by over 100 square metres
- make the exemption for cycling westbound on Valleyfield Street permanent
- alter the Greenways restrictions on Leven Street, from Tarvit Street to Glengyle Terrace, to suit the new road layout and provide a small increase in the overall Greenways loading bays.
These works have now been completed ahead of the King's Theatre's re-opening later this summer.
Permanent closure of Tarvit Street
Once the King’s Theatre refurbishment works end, Tarvit Street will remain permanently closed to motorised vehicles between its junctions with Home Street and Drumdryan Street.
The road will remain open to people walking, wheeling and cycling.
In the coming weeks we will implement the infrastructure to formalise these changes. This infrastructure will be upgraded as part of the wider Meadows to Union Canal project in the future.
One way system on Drumdryan Street
We will also be making Drumdryan Street one way and therefore create a one-way system between Tarvit Street and Drumdryan Street for those who need local access from Brougham Street.
Cyclists will be exempt from this one-way system and be allowed to contraflow traffic.