CAMPAIGNERS are considering launching a community transport scheme in Newquay following fears residents will be cut off whilst a main road is closed for four months during gas upgrade works.

Treloggan Bus Association is looking at hiring a company to operate a minibus when the 59 service is not available and to allow residents to access social events in town or connect with other busses.

The proposed initiative follows fears residents could become isolated as the bus service has reduced to two hourly from four an hour whilst a rolling road closure is in place on Treloggan Road during the Wales and West Utilities project, from its junction with Mellanvrane Lane down to its junction with Polwhele Road until Thursday, February 27, 2026.

Treloggan Bus Association appealed to Cornwall Council to introduce various initiatives to improve the bus service during the work, but the authority stated they would not be feasible.

Ideas put forward included installing a bus shelter at the Kings Head stop, the 59 service to be made hourly to serve most stops in Treloggan, the 93 to serve Treloggan road during the disruption and the 25 service to return to Treloggan.

Thomas Beeson from Treloggan Bus Association said: “It is disappointing none of our proposals were feasible for the council and they will not be implemented. As it stands the 59 will remain the only bus to serve all of Treloggan throughout winter.

“However, I think potentially exploring a community bus effort could be the next steps, if there's a will there's a way. We would like to hear from anyone who has information to help us with this and how we could go about this.

“I do understand the reasoning why our suggestions couldn't be implemented at the moment. But with winter closing in and no plans as of yet to improve our service throughout the disruption, many residents including myself feel like we have been left with a poor service to save costs.

“As improving our service throughout winter would have cost the council more so to residents its seems like we've been left with an infrequent 59 or left to trudge up and down steep hills in the dark, wind, rain, hail just to save money.

“We understand the council can’t fund our suggestions, but I do feel like we would be worth the extra cost to stop Treloggan residents from essentially being isolated over winter.”

Cornwall Council, in correspondence with Treloggan Bus Association said: “We have looked into a bus shelter at the Kings Head stop and confirm that we are unable to locate a shelter here. This is because there is not enough space on the footway to allow for a full shelter or indeed a cantilever style shelter, we are required to maintain a space of 1.5 metres of clear footway for new installations for accessibility purposes and this is simply not achievable.

“We have looked at extending the hardstanding back a little further but again there is insufficient space between the existing hard standing and the boundary fence of the new development to make any noticeable difference.

“Increase service 59 to hourly would unfortunately require additional resource to increase the frequency. An extra vehicle to be added in to the operation which would come at a cost that we do not have any funding to cover. The existing 59 is interworked with other services to ensure the best use of the vehicle.

“The service 93 to Sweet Briar wouldn't be achievable within the current schedule of the service and would require a full re-time. Morrisons if it happens will be a push, Sweetbriar would likely to be a step to far and the service does have multiple school commitments it has to meet at either end of the day.

“We would have implemented this before the closure started were it a valid option. There would also need to be a full route test as the vehicles on the 93 are longer than those allocated to the 59 which is operated by the shortest vehicles in the main fleet and there are concerns about inconsiderate parking

“Service 21 is something we have been asked about previously. Service 21 operates on Henver Road to maintain the required frequency on that corridor, a key corridor into Newquay.

“Treloggan itself does have excellent connections to Newquay town Centre, Truro, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Perranporth via the four to five buses an hour in each direction.

“The stops that were served by service 25 between Quintrell Downs and Treloggan had extremely low usage and still benefit from service 93 on an hourly basis and service 59. To remove Service 21 from the Henver corridor and re-route it via Treloggan into Newguay we don't believe would represent a good use of the service.”