by Neil Birch | 9 August 2024 | News
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...
by Richard Barron | 29 June 2024 | News
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...
by Richard Barron | 1 May 2024 | News
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...
by Richard Barron | 24 April 2024 | News
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,...
by Richard Barron | 30 March 2024 | News
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...
by Richard Barron | 11 December 2023 | News
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...