The HELIX will provide a unique outdoor sustainable environment

The HELIX will transform the landscape between Falkirk and Grangemouth into a thriving environmental community. The HELIX is a partnership made up of Falkirk Council, British Waterways and the Central Scotland Forest Trust. The recent announcement of funding has been received with great excitement by all those involved especially in light of the fact that it was the only Scottish proposal to receive a lottery grant of this kind.

The HELIX scheme will provide a unique outdoor sustainable environment with 300 hectares of new greenspace, 34km of paths, cycle ways, water features, and woodland featuring 750,000 newly planted trees. Other work will include a canal link to re-connect the Forth & Clyde Canal to the Forth Estuary that will offer a new gateway to Scotland’s inland waterways, as well a public arts programme which will involve the creation of two 30 metre high “Kelpie” heads. Based on the mythical Scots creatures of the same name, the sculptures will work both functionally as a boat lift mechanism for the canal, as well as an impressive attraction complimenting The HELIX site.

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