Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance
West Dunbartonshire, Glasgow City, East Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and Falkirk Councils, along with Historic Scotland, have together prepared draft Supplementary Planning Guidance for the Antonine Wall. The purpose of the guidance is to explain the significance of the Antonine Wall and its status as a World Heritage Site; encourage early and effective consultation with Councils and Historic Scotland; and to outline the approach and procedure for assessing development affecting the wall and its setting.
The Councils are now consulting on the guidance and its accompanying Environmental Report. Both documents can be viewed below:
Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance
Environmental Report
Comments on the draft guidance and the Environmental Report are now invited and can be submitted electronically to alistair.gemmell@west-dunbarton.gov.uk or by post, addressed to Forward Planning Section, Council Offices, Garshake Road, Dumbarton, G82 3PU by 5 August 2011.
If you require further information or a hard copy of the documents, please contact us on the details below.
Background
Nearly 2000 years ago, West Dunbartonshire marked the western terminus of the Antonine Wall, which at the time was the Roman Empire’s most northern frontier in Britain. Built during the years following 142 AD on the orders of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, the Antonine Wall stretched for nearly 60 km (40 Roman miles) across central Scotland from Old Kilpatrick on the River Clyde to Bo’ness on the River Forth and consisted of a turf rampart perhaps 3-4 m high fronted by a great ditch. The Wall survived as the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire for a generation before being abandoned in the 160s in favour of a return to Hadrian’s Wall.
After much hard work, West Dunbartonshire Council, in partnership with Historic Scotland and the four other local authorities along the line of the Wall (East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire & Falkirk) were successful in their nomination of the Antonine Wall as a World Heritage Site (WHS). In July 2008, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Quebec, ruled that the Antonine Wall should be inscribed as an extension to the trans-national Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, alongside Hadrian’s Wall and the German limes.
Further Information
For further information about the Antonine Wall WHS, including details of the best places to visit, see the Antonine Wall and Historic Scotland websites:
Antonine Wall website
Historic Scotland Antonine Wall webpage
