230907LOAF Paper 4 update paper

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ügh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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CAIRNGORMS LOC­AL OUT­DOOR ACCESS FOR­UM Adam Streeter-Smith, Recre­ation and Access Man­ager Update and for­ward look Pur­pose: This paper provides an update on the main areas of work both under­taken and planned.

1. Man­age­ment of core paths and out­door access duties:

a) Spey­side Way – Park Author­ity Staff are work­ing with OATS to redevel­op a shorts sec­tion of the route at Kin­craig to remove a steep slope. Plan­ning per­mis­sion is to be sub­mit­ted shortly.

b) Oth­er Path Pro­jects-

• Brae­mar to Kei­loch Path- OATS have sub­mit­ted a plan­ning applic­a­tion for the middle sec­tion of the route, once val­id­ated by Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil it will most likely be called in by the CNPA

c) Com­munity Path Leaflets

• Cur­rently re-design­ing the leaf­let lay­out in the new brand­ing, with Car­rbridge vil­lage as the example. Lag­gan and Strath­don will follow.

d) SOAC promotion

• Pub­lic­a­tions new fire leaf­let pro­duced. Tread lightly leaf­let updated and rebranded. Tread lightly posters cur­rently being rebranded.
• Ranger events – num­ber of pop-up events took place again this year.
• Edu­ca­tion pro­gramme – school ses­sions, teach­er train­ing ses­sions and train­ing for ranger ser­vices all took place.
• ‘High Fire Risk’ mag­net­ic vehicle signs produced.

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ügh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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Oth­er Park Initiatives

1. Caper pro­ject / Dog community. Fol­low­ing on from an ini­tial online sur­vey of the dog walk­ing com­munity, a small group of rep­res­ent­at­ives came togeth­er over a series of four meet­ings. Key actions iden­ti­fied for pro­gress­ing were around fos­ter­ing a dog com­munity, cre­at­ing dog friendly spaces and work­ing on stand­ard­ised sig­nage. An intern is now in post work­ing on a ​“Dog friendly Cairngorms” pro­ject to devel­op a 5‑year action plan and tri­al the cre­ation of a dog friendly exer­cise area.

2. Cairngorms 2030 The applic­a­tion was sub­mit­ted to the Nation­al Lot­tery Her­it­age Fund (NLHF) in mid- August. This included over 70 detailed deliv­ery and cost plans for 20 major pro­jects. We expect the NLHF award decision in Decem­ber with the 5‑year deliv­ery phase start­ing in Janu­ary 2024. If we are suc­cess­ful, we will draw in £10.7m in lot­tery funding