ScotWays Helps Preserve Key Short Cut into Ayr Town Centre

ScotWays Helps Preserve Key Short Cut into Ayr Town Centre

In mid-February, ScotWays was informed by a member of the public about a proposal to install security shutters across the interior of a shopping arcade in Ayr town centre, which would be locked at night. In its planning application to South Ayrshire Council, the Lorne...
Network Rail and level crossings

Network Rail and level crossings

Our attention was recently drawn to an article in the Spring 2024 issue of Land Business, the Scottish Land & Estates magazine. The article, placed by Network Rail, was entitled “A 200-year-old concept that still exists on Scotland’s Railway” and set out Network...
Join our Board of Directors

Join our Board of Directors

We are looking for people to join our Board of Directors. If you are interested in outdoor access and think that you could contribute positively to our activities, we would be pleased to hear from you.  Board meetings are held in Edinburgh four or five times a...
The Power of the People

The Power of the People

Today 24 April marks the 92nd anniversary of a landmark battle in outdoor access history – Kinder Scout.  On that day in 1932, a group of around 500 people headed up to trespass on Kinder Scout demanding their right of access.  It’s lauded as a landmark event,...
SOAC gives no right of access to land.

SOAC gives no right of access to land.

There’s an increasing trend where people tell you that you have a right of access to land under the Scottish Outdoor Access Code (SOAC), but it’s not true and never has been.  Contrary to what you may read in the press, social media and on some signs, the SOAC...
Petition to Reopen Edinburgh’s Radical Road

Petition to Reopen Edinburgh’s Radical Road

Working with Ramblers Scotland, Cockburn Association, Edinburgh Geological Society and Mountaineering Scotland, we have launched an urgent petition calling on Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to reopen Edinburgh’s Radical Road, following a packed public meeting on...