Kilmartin Glen Case Study Roddy Fairley

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Kilmartin Glen Case StudyRoddy Fairley Area
Manager, Argyll and Stirling (SNH)
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Kilmartin Glen
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Kilmartin Glen

• Knapdale National Scenic Area
• National Nature Reserves Moine Mhor Taynish
• cSAC Knapdale oakwoods Tayvallich
• Cultural Heritage Crinan Canal
• Archaeology Neolithic and Bronze age
• Birth of Scotland
• Early Christian

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Kilmartin Glen

• Historic Landscape
• Natural Beauty
• Cultural Heritage
• Agriculture
• Forestry
• Aggregates

• Added Socio-Economic
• Benefits
• (Tourism, Education, Cultural Development, the
  Arts)

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Kilmartin Glen Project

• Historic Scotland, AIE, Argyll and Bute Council,
  SNH
• Visitor infrastructure (Orientation, access,
  parking, footpaths, interpretation)
• Integration (Archaeology, Cultural History,
  Natural History)

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Kilmartin Glen ProjectAims

• Sense of Identity and Place arrival points
  orientation information uniform signage
• Carpark provision
• Access to monuments and natural heritage sites
  (pedestrian, all ability access)
• Interpretation

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Kilmartin Glen ProjectProblems

• Project

• Project drift (steering group meetings)
• Staff changes
• Incomplete stakeholder involvement (Kilmartin
  House Trust)
• Interpretative Planning and Design
• Financial Management

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Kilmartin Glen ProjectMissed opportunities

• Socio- Economic Benefits
• absence of baseline work
• absence of targets
• Visitor perception approval
• absence of baseline survey
• absence of targets

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Kilmartin Glen ProjectConclusions

• Success visitor management and orientation
  infrastructure shared project plans and budgets
  to achieve this
• Failure declining momentum tension between
  partners poor integration with KHT no basis to
  assess or demonstrate success

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The Future

• Dalriada Project
• Wide partnership
• Wider geographical area
• Clear links to economic benefit as well as site
  and visitor management
• Larger ambition

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Dalriada Project

•     Restoration of habitat to recreate a
  continuous landscape from sea to woodland, mire,
  hill, loch and burn
•     Management of archaeological sites within an
  appropriate landscape setting
•     Re-creation of monuments to aid the
  interpretation of life in the first Scottish
  Kingdom of Dalriada
•     Interpretation of the medieval period
  through demonstrations of land management and
  life skills
•     Restoration of the ancient network of drove
  roads etc. as footpaths and cycleways for todays
  use

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Kilmartin Glen Case Study

• Roddy.Fairley_at_SNH.gov.uk