Have Your Say – Lang Craigs Public Consultation
Come along to a public meeting to be held on Wednesday 10th August at 7.30pm to learn more about the Trust’s ambitious plans to transform Lang Craigs into a new native woodland.
Over the next three years, we hope to work with local schools, giving 3000 children the opportunity to plant a tree and learn about their environment. Through volunteer days and community and schools events the Trust aim to plant over 40,000 of the estimated 150,000 trees planned.
The land is visually stunning with the cliffs of the crags themselves towering over woodland, grassland and high moorland as well as the glens of the Overtoun Burn and Garshake Burn. Native trees such as oak, ash, birch and rowan will be planted, creating flourishing young woodland for wildlife. The site will be sensitively designed to ensure the spectacular views are retained.
The area is rich in history, with the unique geology of the Craigs, fossil beds, a prehistoric cup-marked stone, and more recent cultural history from abandoned farmstead sites, Victorian designed landscape features and a WWII bunker used to control decoy fires on the hills during the blitz. The Trust are also interested in tapping into people’s memories and knowledge of the land and its history and to use those stories to help bring the site to life for visitors.
The site is already popular with walkers, in particular the route from Overtoun House into the Kilpatrick hills. The Trust aims to create additional routes, which can link into existing ones, taking, visitors through the young woodland and allow.
The meeting is an opportunity for you to feed into those plans, it is our intention that the site becomes an intrinsic part of the local environment, and a place where you can go for a walk, a family picnic or a place to escape the stresses of modern life.
Everyone is welcome, whether you want to share your views or merely listen, we would encourage you to attend.
The meeting will be held in St Augustine’s Church, Dumbarton High Street.
If you are unable to attend, and would like to know more you can email the site manager roybarlow@woodlandtrust.org.uk.
Hope to see you there.
