Car park improvements
Works to improve car parks
See our news page for the latest information on car park improvement works.
Following our public engagement exercise on visitor facilities in the Pentland Hills, we are moving forward with improving car parks in the Regional Park in the near future.
The City of Edinburgh Council and Midlothian Council have approved four planning applications, for Certificates of Lawfulness for Threipmuir, Flotterstone and Bonaly car parks, and Planning Consent for Harlaw car park. These applications were submitted as a requirement of the successful £846,826 funding from Visit Scotland's Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund, part of a project costing circa £2.4 million.
You can view our Joint Committee discussion on improvement of visitor facilities (Weds 20 Jan 2021). You can also view a later Joint Committee meeting with an updated presentation on proposals by the Project Centre (Thurs 27 Jan 2022).
Some of the measures outlined below and on the following pages are as a result of issues raised in the Pentland Hills Visitor Management Plan (direct link to PDF download).
Work timetable:
Bonaly Car Park (June - December 2023)
Threipmuir Car Park (September 2023 - February 2024)
Harlaw Car Park (December 2023 - March 2024)
Flotterstone Car Park (February - May 2024)
There will be further work on the access road to Harlaw which will necessitate a complete closure but no dates have been set to start this project.
We thank you for your understanding and support in the delivery of improved visitor infrastructure in the Pentland Hills Regional Park.
We look forward to having additional car parking spaces, better surfaces and delineation of spaces, and facilities such as toilets and bike repair stations. As part of the refurbishments, we will be introducing pay machines at all four car parks. It is intended that income from these machines will be dedicated to running a Regional Park service with more capacity to deploy rangers where needed and a better ability to maintain infrastructure such as paths, signposts and pedestrian gates.