Placemaking

The Glasgow Canal Project is coming to life in new and exciting ways. Real change is taking place around the canal, creating a safe and enjoyable outdoor space, a positive resource which will help to breathe new life and vitality into local communities.

As part of our tourism and destination development strategy, Scottish Canals is creating a world class visitor and destination hub at Fort Augustus on the Caledonian Canal. We are currently hiring for a range of roles in our new Caledonian Canal Centre.

We have been breathing new life into Bowling Harbour, developing a new tourism and leisure destination fitting of the western gateway to the Forth & Clyde Canal.

Local residents, businesses, landowners, community groups, and other agencies are working together to create a shared vision for the Crinan Canal corridor and the communities on its banks.

Living on Water is part of an overall strategy to deliver sustainable development and improvements to Scotland’s canals and towpaths.

We work closely with the public and stakeholders to help generate community visions, masterplans and action plans.

Scottish Canals are carrying out a study to identify opportunities to improve the towpath along the Union Canal from Lochrin Basin to the Almond Aqueduct in Edinburgh.

Canalside Cottages are former lock keeper and canal worker’s cottages located on the banks of Scottish canals which have been restored into high quality self catering holiday accommodation.

We have a number of opportunities available along the canal network, from utilising canal water to operating a canalside business, as well as opportunities for canalside development.