Cardowan Moss Woodland, Glasgow

Updated: 6 August 2021

We’re carrying out essential upgrades in Cardowan Moss Woodland, Glasgow. This project will allow us to make critical improvements to the infrastructure of your local gas network.

In agreement with Forestry and Land Scotland, our project started in May 2021 and will be completed in August 2021. There will be no interruptions to any gas supplies during this time.

Our teams will be working within Cardowan Moss Woodland. Part of this work will include the safe release of a large volume of natural gas venting into the atmosphere. This planned operation will begin on Wednesday 11 August and will be carried out in a safe and controlled manner, but you may hear the noise from the venting operation or smell gas as a result.

For everyone’s safety, we need to close some footpaths within Cardowan Moss. Please see the map below which shows our work area, which footpaths will be closed and a diversion for pedestrians.

This project has been planned in close consultation with Forestry and Land Scotland to help ensure the disruption to local wildlife and habitats is minimised as much as possible.

We’re committed to upgrading our network to ensure we continue to keep homes and businesses safe and warm long into the future.

If you have any enquiries about this project, please call Project Manager Gus Robertson on 07836 649 198 during office hours (8am to 4pm on weekdays).

Map showing path closures in Cardown Moss woodland

Help and advice

Care for the animals and plant life in the surrounding area is one of our main priorities. We are working closely with environmental experts throughout the project to ensure effects from our work are minimised.  

We need to safely vent gas as part of this project. This is a safe operation which will be carried out with an exclusion zone in place. This means that some of the footpaths within Cardowan Moss will be closed and diversions will be in place. 

If you smell gas, call the National Gas Emergency Service immediately on 0800 111 999 or via textphone (minicom) on 0800 371 787.

If you're a British Sign Language (BSL) user, you can use SignLive to contact the National Gas Emergency Service free of charge. 

There will be no interruptions to any gas supplies during this project.

We will not need to visit any homes during this project.

Our map above shows the footpaths we're closing for everyone's safety and the diversion routes.

We’ll always provide advance notification if we need to use temporary traffic lights or close a road. If our work affects local bus services, this will be advertised in advance too. 

We may need to take up space in the road or on the verge for a site storage area for our equipment. We’ll restore any areas we’ve disturbed as quickly as possible after the project is finished. We’ll also make good all road surfaces, pavements and driveways.

We’ll do our best to keep customers informed. After all, the work we are planning is for your safety. We’ll share project information through our website and social media, as well as local press and radio, and leaflets. We would welcome any ideas about other ways we can communicate with you to help raise awareness of what we’re doing, such as details of community Facebook pages and independent websites, to which we can supply updates as the work progresses.