Trossachs Visitor Management Project

The English poet John Keats found the Trossachs “vexatiously full of visitors” when he visited in 1818.

Prepared by the Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust in partnership with the Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs and Forestry & Land Scotland and the support of local community groups. Submitted by Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, October 2020 “So wondrous wild the whole might seem the scenery of a fairy dream” Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott, 1810

Contents: Background 3-5 Evidence of Visitor Pressure 6-14 Ben A’an Car Park Proposals 15-16 Trossachs Pier Proposals 17-21 Roderick Dhu’s Path & Watch Tower 22-26 Stronachlachar Pier Proposals 27-28 page 2 Trossachs Trail Signing 29-30 Background

The Trossachs Visitor Management Project is an ambitious package of visitor infrastructure improvement proposals developed by the Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust in partnership with the Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs and Forest and Land Scotland, with the support and involvement of local community groups, and the support of the National Park, Stirling Council and Scottish Water - the landowner of two of the three sites where investment is planned.

The project builds on previous initiatives, including the former award winning Trossachs Trail Tourism Management Programme in the 1990s, and aims to address the urgent need to: - relieve the chronic problems created by visitor pressures in the heart of the Trossachs and, in particular, traffic congestion caused by excessive road verge parking; - improve the quality of life for local residents who regularly have problems going about their daily business safely; - enhance the quality of the visitor experience in the busy Brig o Turk/Ben A’an/Loch Katrine visitor corridor; and - encourage the dispersal of visitors to other parts of the Trossachs area where it is less busy.

The aims of the project will be delivered by investing £586,600 in the first phase of visitor infrastructure improvements primarily at Ben A’an Car Park, below the popular Ben A’an mountain path, and at the Trossachs Pier and Stronachlachar Visitor Hubs, at either end of Loch Katrine which is credited with being ‘the Birthplace of Scottish Tourism’ due to the writings of Sir Walter Scott and others in the early 1800s that led to the first surge of visitors to the Trossachs. These three sites collectively now consistently have in excess of 200,000 visitors per year and there has been a marked growth in recent years due to the increasing popularity of healthy outdoor recreational activities and campervanning holidays. The planned investment at these locations will be augmented by improved signing and information/orientation points around the long established 40 mile Trossachs Trail.

Key outputs will include: - sensitively designed expanded car parks with 110 additional spaces, improved disabled parking and bus drop off and pick up points across the three sites at Ben A’an, Trossachs Pier and Stronachlachar Pier; - 12 additional overnight campervan bays with hook up facilities, electric vehicle and bike charging points, public litter recycling points and water refill stations at the Trossachs Pier and Stronachlachar Pier Visitor Hubs; - a new mobility hub with electric scooters at Trossachs Pier Visitor Hub; - upgraded and extended public toilets at Trossachs Pier Visitor Hub to provide treble the capacity including 16 Covid-19 adapted cubicles and 2 disabled toilets and wet rooms; - reinstatement of the 200 metre historic Roderick Dhu Watch Tower path and scenic lookout beside Trossachs Pier Car Park; and - upgrading signing and 10 information/orientation points at key ‘spoke and hub’ locations around the Trossachs Trail. page 3 Background The Great Trossachs Forest NNR and The Trossachs Trail

Stronachlachar Pier

Ben A’an carpark Trossachs Pier

to Blair Drummond

Trossachs Trail Footpaths Doune

Action areas to Blair Drummond Thornhill

page 4 Background Loch Katrine

page 5 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Ben A’an and Trossachs Pier Approach Roads

Samples of coverage of visitor pressures on social media

page 6 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Ben A’an and Trossachs Pier Approach Roads

Samples of coverage of visitor pressures in the press

Trossachs Traffic Chaos A weekend of traffic chaos in the heart of the Trossachs has sparked a conservation charity to call for urgent steps to be taken. Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs say cars were parked indiscriminately on both roadside verges beside Loch Achray and near the popular Ben A’an footpath, and not for the first time. Now the charity’s chair says something has to be done to avoid another “year of chaos”. James Fraser said: “We are only a few weeks into the 2020 and there have already been major problems on at least five days with snakelike lines of cars parked on the verges of the main Trossachs arterial road which has poor sightlines. “This has led to traffic coming to a standstill with larger vehicles such as coaches and emergency vehicles unable to get through which is of great concern and this requires to be urgently addressed.” He added: “It is great to see more people becoming active and hillwalking in the area following the recent investments in hill path improvements, as part of the Mountains and the People project involving several agencies, but unfortunately this was done in isolation of other much needed improvements such as the creation of additional off road parking.

24 January 2020 source: Daily Record Crispin Hoult, chair of Trossachs Community page 7 Council. Evidence of Visitor Pressure Ben A’an Car Park

Ben A’an has become increasingly popular and is now one of the most heavily climbed mountains in the National Park. The Ben A’an car park has been designed to accommodate 30 cars but is regularly packed year round with over 45 cars. There is also extensive road verge parking often extending for half a mile to a mile around the the Loch Achray loop road and the spur road to Loch Katrine. This is still a regular occurrence despite the introduction of an emergency traffic Regulation Order (TRO) with extensive no parking signing a few weeks after the easing of COVID 19 lockdown restrictions.

page 8 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Ben A’an Car Park and Path Usage Statistics

Ben A’an has become Ben A’an Path Usage increasingly popular as one of the most heavily used mountain paths in the National Park due to its close proximity to the Central belt and it can be busy year round as the statistics of usage demonstrate. The statistics have been collected from an electronic counter.

page 9 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Trossachs Pier Approach Roads

Road verge parking is a year round feature in the heart of the Trossachs. Three of the photos were taken in mid-January 2020.

Prior to the introduction of a temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) in late summer 2020, the approach roads from Aberfoyle and Callander were closed by Police Scotland on a number of occasions due to excessive road verge parking. One busy Saturday 168 cars were counted parking on road verges in the heart of the Trossachs.

After the TRO was introduced with no parking signs, cars were displaced regularly and parked on the verges of the spur road to Loch Katrine. Extra police and Council Parking Warden patrols have been introduced at weekends leading to many parking fines being issued. Additional parking is urgently required as TROs on their own are inadequate to deal with the worsening situation. The option of introducing a shuttle bus service from nearby communities is part of the solution too and provision for a shuttle bus pull-in is part of the plans for the Ben A’an car park extension.

page 10 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Trossachs Pier Visitor Hub

The car and coach park at Trossachs Pier is regularly full as it is the most popular gathering point for recreational visitors to the heart of the Trossachs.

page 11 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Trossachs Pier Visitor Hub

The Trossachs Pier Visitor Hub is becoming increasingly popular with walkers, cyclists and campervans. The existing overnight campervan bays with hook ups in the car park are often fully booked at weekends and use of these bays has more than doubled in the last two years as the growth in campervan ownership and rentals has exploded.

Trossachs Pier estimated visitor numbers based on car parking machine ticket sales and boat coach passenger bookings

80,000 78,600 73,050 car parking ticket sales 70,000 67,860 car visitor numbers 60,000 based on3 per car

50,000 coach visitors

40,000 31,157 30,000 26,451 28,458 26,200 22,620 24,350

20,000 *Number of coaches has 10,000 grown from 580 in 2017/18 to 762 in 2019/20 carscar coach carscar coach carscar coach visitors visitors visitors visitors visitors visitors 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 page 12 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Stronachlachar Pier Visitor Hub

This remote site at the north end of Loch Katrine is becoming more popular with growth in the number of cyclists, walkers and sightseers. The small car park is struggling to cope with the number of visitors arriving by coach and car. The small car park was used by 160 coaches and 7,500 coach passengers in 2019 - a 25% increase on 2018. It’s also used by a further estimated 20,000 visitors arriving by car (6,500 cars) and 4,000 cyclists (most by boat).

page 13 Evidence of Visitor Pressure Stronachlachar Pier Visitor Hub

Plans for Stronachlachar Pier Car Park.

In relation to the proposed extension to add to the current facility at Stronachlachar pier, we would like to add our support to the scheme.

We note that in peak season, and most notably weekends there is a shortage of parking facilities on this site causing congestion, and verge parking which in turn is causing access issues as well as parking in local driveways. Most weekends in September 2020 we have noted on numerous occasions that the access in and out of the facility have been blocked, stopping custom coming to our facility.

Since occupying the building in 2017 we have noted a large scale upturn of motor homes using the car park for over night stays, and coupled with the increased visitor numbers this adds to the increased need for an extension of parking, waste disposal, as well as hook up points for electricity.

Post COVID the pressure has increased further given the location where tourists can get away from towns and cities, without the need for foreign travel.

This will improve visitor experience hugely in this area, as well as satisfy local residents who often find congestion at their properties.

Brian Graham Ciaran Devlin

page 14 Ben A’an Car Park Proposals

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REV DATE NOTE page 15 0 5 10 15 m PLANNING www.raeburnfarquharbowen.com Ben A’an Car Park Proposals

Shuttle bus service drop off/pick up

View of car park with proposed extension

page 16 Trossachs Pier Proposals

Masterplan Layout ‘G’20/004/05 Overview for 20/004/02 ‘G’20/004/02 The Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trossachs Pier

LOCH KATRINE

20/004/01 ‘G’

W W MW CONSULTANTS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN MW CONSULTANTS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN W W 20/004/03 ‘D’ 20/004/04 ‘A’

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Trossachs Pier Proposals W

MW CONSULTANTS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

see drg 20/004/03 ‘D’ W and 20/004/04 ‘A’ for detail

public recycling points public recycling points

steamship water bottle refill points

disabled parking

secure bike stances with e-bike charge

motor bike parking

20/004/01 rev ‘G’ cycle hire W 9 existing parking spaces

reconfigured to accommodate MW CONSULTANTS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

4no. MH bays for overnight use, W serviced via a single service post. W

MW CONSULTANTS W ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN 20/004/01 ‘G’

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Trossachs Pier Proposals W

MW CONSULTANTS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN new signage and dry existing access stone wall feature W

new signage

existing oak tree to be pollarded as per LLTNP instruction, to Alan Motion Tree Consulting ltd specification

scottish water service tanker bay

South

existing boulder DRG 20/004/02 rev’G’ section A-A ground made up to engineers spec. existing carpark drainage extended NOTE: as per engineers spec. new tree planting to Keith L. Wood

Landscape Architect specification

(including transplanting of ‘aspen’) W Carpark Extension (SOUTH)

MW CONSULTANTS W ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN 20/004/02‘G’

page 19 Trossachs Pier Proposals

public recycling points rhododendron removed adjacent to buildings

24hr campervan access new refurbished toilets mobility hub refurbished toilets

planning approved

* note: COVID-19 protocols applied throughout

new extension

DRG 20/004/03 rev ’D’

public recycling point W

MW CONSULTANTS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN W W

MW CONSULTANTS W ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN page 20 20/004/03 ‘D’ Trossachs Pier Proposals

‘MH’ motorhome/overnight MH service posts - 2x2m 2x16a plus LED light water and drainage

tarmac extended 1m

existing tar finish extended section A-A

MH1

existing gravel finish upgraded to tar NOTE: Carpark Extension new parking bays 7m long to allow additional overnight Motor Home MH2 parking at new bays 2/3 and 4 North 7m

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DRG 20/004/05 rev ’G’ new spaces - tar finish Carpark Extension (NORTH) 3

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page 21 Roderick Dhu’s Path and Watch Tower Proposals

Proposals to reinstate and upgrade the historic Roderick Dhu Watch Tower Path, which provided visitors with magnificent views of Loch Katrine and the sites featured in Sir Walter Scott’s famous poem Lady of the Lake in 1810. This will include the creation a special scenic lookout feature with low key interpretation in the spirit of the National Scenic Routes initiative that was piloted in the National Park with features at several busy visitor sites.

Roderick Dhu’s Watch Tower

Victorian era painting showing the view down Loch Katrine Historical photographs referencing page 22 and Roderick Dhu’s Watch Tower Roderick Dhu’s Watch Tower page 23 page 24 page 25 Roderick Dhu’s Path and Watch Tower Proposals

page 26 Path Construction Design Specifications Samples of half gate and information panel proposed at car park entrance to the Roderick Dhu path. Stronachlachar Pier Proposals

Woodland parking area 1. Informal layout of 5 x 2.5m bays 2. Bays defined by log back boards 3. Parking area formed on crushed stone, compacted with permeable finish 4. Apron at entrance and exit (3m wide) tar finish for first 6m see 20/005/03 and /04 for 5. All trees adjacent to carpark area to be detail protected during construction

site plan as existing

made up ground to engineers specification section A-A inc. drainage

public recycling point Masterplan Layout IN out 20 parking bays deliveries secure bike stances with e-bike charger NO TREES REMOVED EXISTING FENCE RETAINED & REFURBISHED see 20/005/02 tree canopies

new spaces motorbike parking water bottle refill point 2No accessible spaces temporary 2No E.V. charge points (off single post) bus space new tree planting DRG 20/005/02 rev ’K’ (see Keith L. Wood refurbished Landcape Architects for spec.) 6m min interpretation board 6m min log back boards existing sign refurbished

north resurfaced to level off tarmac finish extended pier railings restored existing layout & resurfaced

coach drop off 2&2 motorhome service points (750mm high)

overnight parking for campervans only (16/19/22/25)

replacement interpretation board W W

MW CONSULTANTS MW CONSULTANTS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN 20/005/02 ‘K’ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN W W

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Proposed site for new informal woodland car park and upgrading of existing car park.

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Proposals include upgrading some of the existing Trail to Loch Katrine directional signing and installing new, or upgrading existing, information and orientation signs at strategic

‘hub and spoke’ locations. Examples of existing info/orientation points in need of upgrading/replacing. Info signs to highlight active travel opportunities (walking and cycling) in less pressurised areas along with some Orientation Point Installations important visitor management messages.

Examples of good quality info/orientation signs

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