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CAIRNGORMS LOCAL OUTDOOR ACCESS FORUM 
Paper 3 – Outdoor Access Strategy – new policies 16January 2007 

CAIRNGORMS LOCAL OUTDOOR ACCESS FORUM 


Title: Outdoor Access Strategy – new policies 

Prepared by: Bob Grant, Senior Outdoor Access Officer 


Purpose 

To update the Forum on the changes which have been made to the Outdoor Access 
Strategy since the meeting in October and to seek the Forum’s approval for these changes. 


Recommendations 

The Forum considers the additional section dealing with the management of outdoor access 
at sensitive sites and agrees the proposed changes. 


Background 

1. The Cairngorms Local Outdoor Access Forum has been heavily engaged in the 
process of developing an Outdoor Access Strategy for the National Park. This has 
involved agreeing the key issues that such a strategy should address and 
commenting on the emerging strategy. A draft strategy was considered by the 
Forum at the meeting on 31 October 2006 at which the Forum proposed that a new 
section should be added to include the management of outdoor access at sensitive 
sites. 

2. A small number of additional points were also raised in relation to the need to re-
emphasise the strategy was not a recreation strategy as that would only be a reiteration 
of good practice developed by relevant governing bodies, although it was 
recognised that there was a need to make clear links to existing governing body 
policies. 


Changes 

3. An additional section has been added to the Action Themes which addresses the 
management of outdoor access at sensitive sites and the draft section is shown in 
Annex 1 to this document. 

4. In addition to the substantive change relating to managing outdoor access at 
sensitive sites, the opportunity has been taken to make further minor alterations to 
the strategy. These relate to:-

• providing a clearer explanation of the respective roles of the strategy and that of 
the governing bodies of sports; 

• more up to date information on a transport audit that has been completed; 

• references to recent research on public participation in physical exercise; and 

• reference to the development of a policy on bridges. 

5. These minor changes will be explained further in the introduction to this paper at the 
Forum meeting. 


Bob Grant 
8 January 2007 
bobgrant@cairngorms.co.uk