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Message from Bridget Clark 

The Glen Road withstood the winter storms Arwen and Eunice well at the start of the year.  

However it was a relief when the old drainage from the field drains above was restored in summer. Tom finished digging out the settling pond and the contour drain, and put pipes down to the victorian culvert BoA side. It is diverting a useful amount of water away from the steep slopes above the road. 

That has broadly completed the conservation works initiated in 2019, fundraised c£44,500.  Thanks to Ian and Tom for managing the works for maximum value.  Though we continue to respond to ongoing maintenance.

Thanks to Peter's Paths Team for scraping back vegetation BoA side, and at the high Wharryburn bridge.  

Grateful thanks to Stirling Council roads team who responded to Ian's suggestion for a 'stitch in time' bitmac seam repair at the gabions by the high bridge.

Good to see more orchids reappearing - both common and rarer ones.

Less welcome to see 16 mattresses dumped just below our section!  Thanks to Friends of BoA for removing them. Luckily fly tipping is rare, probably due to so many people passing through.

Keeping on top of ash die back, and drains after heavy rain.

Someone attempted to drive over the bollards - Dunblane end this time. 

And many thanks to the annual leaf blowers team organised by Stewart and Duncan, for a particularly demanding session this year.

We always get lots of grateful thanks when working along the road.  People find it very special.

 

 

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This community led project is conserving the popular old Glen Road path between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan through the attractive Kippenrait Glen SSSI, for leisure and functional active travel for locals & visitors.

The main aims of the survey were to report on use of the Glen Road path to funders of the 2019 works, and to collect more qualitative information for the future. This has coincidentally provided a useful snapshot of usage under Covid-19 lockdown.

You can access the survey results and read more here.

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In these challenging times it is good that people can get out and enjoy the old Glen Road. The birds are singing and nesting, red squirrels chasing each other up trees and the spring flowers are emerging. 

This community-led project is conserving the old Glen Road between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan. The funds raised in 2019 for urgent stabilisation repairs topped £38,000 from grants and public donations.  Grants from Sustrans, Clackmannanshire and Stirling Environment Trust, Stirling Council, Scotways, Paths for All, Bridge of Allan and Stirling Round Table, Bridge of Allan Community Council.  Public donations via Kindlink met the target of £5000 plus gift aid.  Works advice and co-ordination from volunteer Ian MacLachlan, IKM Consulting.  Work continues on some drainage this spring, and additional grants are being sought for a new slip meantime.

Some of our funders have asked for user information – hence the survey below.
www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GlenRoadSurvey. Survey closed 30th April 2020.

Many thanks for your help! 

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Kippenrait glenRight on Dunblane’s doorstep, and easily accessed by either the Darn Walk or the Glen Road, is the fantastic ‘wildwood’ of Kippenrait Glen. Much of this extensive woodland, which clothes the steep sided banks of the Wharry Burn, and the more level riverbanks of the Allan Water, is thought to have been continuously wooded since the last ice age. A huge variety of beautiful woodland plants can be found – many of them rare and special. The woods look lovely at all times of the year, but in spring the bluebells and carpets of delicate white wood anemones and pungent wild garlic are certainly a highlight. Because the woodland is so special and has such varied biodiversity, it has been designated as a site of European importance and our government has a duty to conserve it.

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