Meadows Masterplan & Car Parks
An ongoing project to explore options for enhancing the Callander Meadows, as well as the Meadows and Station Road car parks, into sustainable and safe recreational spaces for residents and visitors.
Green Adventure Gateway Project
From August 2024-January 2025, CCDT undertook the design of a community-led strategy to transform these areas of Callander into sustainable amenity hubs, with help from funding from Forth Valley Lomond Community Led Local Development. Key proposals included reimagining the Meadows as a riverside parkland with reduced vehicle dominance and enhanced biodiversity, and Station Road car park as a mobility hub featuring upgraded facilities, campervan parking and nature-based flood mitigation. Vision boards were produced and amended based on community feedback - see above. Recommendations emphasised a phased approach, starting with maintenance and pilot projects, followed by major infrastructure to improve amenity, climate resilience, active travel and community wellbeing.
From December 2025-March 2026, a further design study was commissioned with help from Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Authority’s Place Programme Fund, to develop the initial vision set out in the Green Adventure Gateway project for Station Road car park. The aims of this were to flesh out more detail in how this site could be come a sustainable travel and mobility hub, focusing on enhanced visitor arrival experience, upgraded active travel routes and bus infrastructure, dedicated motorhome facilities and improved walking & wheeling signage.
Station Road Redevelopment Project
One of the recommendations from the Green Adventure Gateway project report was the planting of more riparian woodland habitat along the River Teith. By planting around 2,000 trees - including different types of willow, and alder - the initiative establishes a “woodland mosaic” to mitigate rising water temperatures and support the river habitat health. The design, informed by detailed spatial mapping, uses varying planting densities and sacrificial willow coppices to manage beaver and deer herbivory. The initial planting took place in March 2026 with the help of volunteers, and will be monitored and maintained annually. This project is made possible with delivery expertise from Forth Rivers Trust and funding from Forth Climate Forest.
Callandrade Meadows Riparian Tree Planting
