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LOAF PAPER 3 -UPDATE AND FORWARD LOOK

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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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CAIRNGORMS LOC­AL OUT­DOOR ACCESS FORUM

Title: Update and for­ward look Pre­pared by: Adam Streeter-Smith, Recre­ation and Access Manager

Pur­pose This paper provides an update on the main areas of work both under­taken and planned.

  1. Devel­op­ment and Man­age­ment of core paths:

    Spey­side Way

    • Dir­ec­tion­al sig­nage – The works to update the dir­ec­tion­al sig­nage (fin­ger­posts and way­mark­ers) between Aviemore and the Park bound­ary (bey­ond Crom­dale) is mostly com­plete. The main post install­a­tion has been done, and final snag­ging works are being wrapped up. Key improve­ments have been the sig­nage through Nethy bridge and Boat of Garten, where met­al lamp­post signs have been used in place of posts, mak­ing this much clearer.
    • Gates- Crom­dale to Mains of Dalvey at the Park bound­ary. We have secured a con­tract­or to remove the out­dated ​“ram­bler” style gates that are so dif­fi­cult to access, espe­cially on a bike and impossible on a horse. The ini­tial con­tract is due to com­mence in mid-April, start­ing at Crom­dale to Mains of Dalvey at the Park bound­ary. We hope to remove all the ram­bler gates and replace (only where required) with self-clos­ing ped­es­tri­an gates made to the prop­er spe­cific­a­tions to accom­mod­ate bikes and horses.

  2. Oth­er Path Pro­jects- Dul­nain Bridge – Works were com­pleted before Christ­mas on the river­side path in Dul­nain Bridge. They included the path drain­age remov­al of organ­ic growth from path sur­face and rein­state­ment path wear­ing course. They also included mak­ing safe a large wind­blown tree

  3. Fire Bylaw A paper was taken to the Park Author­ity Board on the pro­posed fire bylaw (see 250214Paper1SeasonalFireManagementByelaw.pdf). Sub­ject to minor

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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amend­ments the Board agreed the word­ing should be sub­mit­ted to Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment for approval.

  1. Upland Paths- Meall a’ Bhua­chaille The team arrived on site in Novem­ber (just in time for the change in weath­er) and have begun work­ing peri­od­ic­ally when weath­er suits and between oth­er con­tracts. Works include improve­ment stone pitched sec­tions to make them more com­fort­able, lay­ing of aggreg­ate on oth­er sec­tions and secur­ing this with stone bars and tack­ling drain­age issues. Works are still ongo­ing but on sched­ule to be com­pleted by end of March.