14. The Millennium Link
• 7 new opening bridges
• 28 new road bridges
• 9 new locks constructed
• 32 locks refurbished
• 38 masonry bridges refurbished
• 5 km of new canal formed
• 300,000 tonnes of silt removed
36 Major Obstructions removed
22. Lambhill
• Long-standing neglect of human
capital and community assets
• Loss of public buildings
• Very high level of dereliction
• Little positive economic activity
• Low aspirations
• High benefit dependency
25. ● Following investment from Growing Community Assets (Big Lottery), Glasgow City
Council, Scottish Canals and the Climate Challenge Fund, Lambhill Stables has
demonstrated the ability to deliver a programme of transformation.
35. Pinkston will deliver:
• A year round paddling facility
• For Canoe & Kayak training for all levels, Canoe Polo, Whitewater, outdoor swimming
• Events from triathlons to national freestyle series
Physical outputs
• 130m by 30m wide cleanwater pool
• 100m whitewater course and 30m freestyle course (Grade 3 rapids)
• 4 changing rooms (16 showers+ disabled facilities)
• 2 wet classrooms
• Space for 20 clubs
• 75 Car parking spaces
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• Venue has capacity to hold events for 150 competitors
• Venue for local, regional and national development of the sport. (Slalom & Canoe polo)
• A venue for Life saving training & community education
• Swiftwater rescue training and potentially national Fire & Police games
41. Turning the fringe into the centre
Through place-making and engagement with people, we
will create a new green heart where urban fringe inverts to
create a new gateway at the centre of a new metropolitan
area
42. Hallglen
• 10% Low birthweight babies
High Flats
• Worst 5% in Scotland for Education
Westquarter
Dawson Priority Area
• Worst 10% in Scotland for deprivation
• 32% Benefit dependency
Thornhill Road
• Worst 5% in Scotland for Crime
• High Unemployment
Falkirk Gateway
• High youth unemployment
Alcan
Falkirk Community Stadium
• High benefit dependency
• Low educational attainment
West Mains Industrial Estate
Earls Gate Development Area
• High levels of crime
Canal Corridor
Scottish index of Multiple Deprivation 2006
M9 Corridor
Connected Path Network
New Gateway to
Lowland Canals
Grangemouth Priority Area
• 30% Benefit dependency
Connecting with Communities
• Connecting employment sites
• Intermediate labour markets
• Tourism opportunity
• Direct & indirect employment
• Reconnecting communities
70. The Green Blue Challenge
How to develop a new iconic parkland
and new canal into a driver for
Social Enterprise
www.scottishcanals.co.uk
71. Community
Arts
We are working with Langlees to help them take on more potential CED
based offers include running their own art gallery as well as taking on more
of their woodland management.
72. Cycling & Woodlands
• We are supporting Callendar Estates CED group as part of the emerging
Bespoke Project
73. Creating a buzz about Social Enterprise
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• We are building up a Helix Honey initiative with support from ASDA
and Community Groups
Home for 150,000 new Bees
Produce: Helix Honey, Lipbalm, Beeswax Candles, Mead
Economic Benefits:
Education, Health (mental and physical), environment, carbon reduction,
stronger ecosystem, significant increase in yields from nearby crops
74. Home Grown
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• We are supporting the Allotment Society
• Land purchased and funds raised
76. Quick Outputs
•The canals rebuild cost is estimated at £1.75bn
•Estate covers 1500 hectares of land and 95 hectares of water
•Government grant per year is £10m
£56m+
Of Gross
Value Added
Per annum
• Over the last 10 years Scottish Canals have delivered:
• 7 major new destinations across the system.
• Contributed to reduction in relative deprivation in many canal side communities.
Economic
• In partnership £285m of development on our banks, creating £13.8m GVA per
annum.
•Next 10 years are predicted to deliver 1250 housing units and 170,000 sq m of canal side
development delivering £18m per annum GVA
• Others have delivered in excess of £150m of additional development on the canal banks
in the last 10 years
•Tourism on the canals delivers £11m direct spend and £23m of indirect spend per
annum
•Social & Environmental
•tSWT over the last 10 years has delivered £10m+ of funding and projects
•Health benefits attributed to the use of the canal exceeds £8 million per annum.
•Ever £1 invested in our towpath delivers £7 of benefits.
•Scottish canals freight delivers a £475,000 environmental saving per annum