diff --git a/parsl/dataflow/dflow.py b/parsl/dataflow/dflow.py
index d6cb0597fc..83ea2e31cf 100644
--- a/parsl/dataflow/dflow.py
+++ b/parsl/dataflow/dflow.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import inspect
 import logging
 import os
-import pathlib
 import pickle
 import random
 import sys
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@
 import parsl
 from parsl.app.errors import RemoteExceptionWrapper
 from parsl.app.futures import DataFuture
-from parsl.channels import Channel
 from parsl.config import Config
 from parsl.data_provider.data_manager import DataManager
 from parsl.data_provider.files import File
@@ -49,7 +47,6 @@
 from parsl.monitoring.message_type import MessageType
 from parsl.monitoring.remote import monitor_wrapper
 from parsl.process_loggers import wrap_with_logs
-from parsl.providers.base import ExecutionProvider
 from parsl.usage_tracking.usage import UsageTracker
 from parsl.utils import Timer, get_all_checkpoints, get_std_fname_mode, get_version
 
@@ -1143,36 +1140,6 @@ def log_task_states(self) -> None:
 
         logger.info("End of summary")
 
-    def _create_remote_dirs_over_channel(self, provider: ExecutionProvider, channel: Channel) -> None:
-        """Create script directories across a channel
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        provider: Provider obj
-           Provider for which scripts dirs are being created
-        channel: Channel obj
-           Channel over which the remote dirs are to be created
-        """
-        run_dir = self.run_dir
-        if channel.script_dir is None:
-
-            # This case will be detected as unreachable by mypy, because of
-            # the type of script_dir, which is str, not Optional[str].
-            # The type system doesn't represent the initialized/uninitialized
-            # state of a channel so cannot represent that a channel needs
-            # its script directory set or not.
-
-            channel.script_dir = os.path.join(run_dir, 'submit_scripts')  # type: ignore[unreachable]
-
-            # Only create dirs if we aren't on a shared-fs
-            if not channel.isdir(run_dir):
-                parent, child = pathlib.Path(run_dir).parts[-2:]
-                remote_run_dir = os.path.join(parent, child)
-                channel.script_dir = os.path.join(remote_run_dir, 'remote_submit_scripts')
-                provider.script_dir = os.path.join(run_dir, 'local_submit_scripts')
-
-        channel.makedirs(channel.script_dir, exist_ok=True)
-
     def add_executors(self, executors: Sequence[ParslExecutor]) -> None:
         for executor in executors:
             executor.run_id = self.run_id
@@ -1186,7 +1153,7 @@ def add_executors(self, executors: Sequence[ParslExecutor]) -> None:
                     executor.provider.script_dir = os.path.join(self.run_dir, 'submit_scripts')
                     os.makedirs(executor.provider.script_dir, exist_ok=True)
 
-                    self._create_remote_dirs_over_channel(executor.provider, executor.provider.channel)
+                    executor.provider.channel.script_dir = executor.provider.script_dir
 
             self.executors[executor.label] = executor
             executor.start()