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Scottish Canals is the Scottish Government body responsible for managing the country's inland waterways. Formerly a division of British Waterways, it became a stand-alone executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government on 2 July 2012. Legally, the corporation is still referred to as the British Waterways Board, but in all other aspects it uses the brand Scottish Canals.[4]

British Waterways Board, operating as Scottish Canals[1]

Scottish Canals logo
Predecessor	British Waterways
Formation	2 July 2012 (2012-07-02)
Type	public corporation of the Scottish Government
Headquarters	Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Region served	Scotland
Chairman of Board	Andrew Thin[2]
Chief Executive	Catherine Topley[2]
Budget	£19.2m[3]
Staff	284[3]
Website	www.scottishcanals.co.uk
Formerly called	British Waterways (Scotland)

Based in Glasgow, Scottish Canals cares for 137 miles (220 km) of waterway network in total, including 17 reservoirs and the navigation rights to four lochs, including Loch Ness. The body is responsible for five canals.[5]

• Caledonian – 60 miles (97 km)
• Crinan – 9 miles (14 km)
• Forth and Clyde – 35 miles (56 km)
• Monkland (no longer operational, although two watered sections remain) – 2 miles (3.2 km)
• Union Canal – 31 miles (50 km)

History

British Waterways was founded in 1962 under the Transport Act, taking over statutory responsibility for operating and maintaining waterways across Great Britain. In 2010 the UK Government determined that responsibility for inland waterways in England and Wales should pass to a new charitable trust, the Canal & River Trust. However, the Scottish Government decided that canals in Scotland would remain publicly owned and British Waterways would continue to operate in Scotland as a statutory corporation trading as Scottish Canals.

References

External links

• Official website

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