Over £2m of extra City Deal funding can’t be used to help meet the soaring cost of revamping Aurs Road, council officials have said.

The transformation of Aurs Road — between Barrhead and Newton Mearns — has been hit by delays, causing the estimated bill for the project to rise.

East Renfrewshire councillors agreed to spend up to an additional £6.9m on the scheme, which is now expected to be finished by spring next year, at a meeting earlier this month.

The largest contributor to the project is the Glasgow City Region City Deal, which is funded by both the UK and Scottish governments, who are providing a combined £12.7m of the committed £23.6m budget.

With final costs now expected to be at least almost £28m, Cllr Gordon Wallace, Conservative, asked whether other City Deal funding c

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