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CAIRNGORMS LOCAL OUTDOOR ACCESS FORUM 
Paper 5 - Reviewing the Forum March 27 2007 


CAIRNGORMS LOCAL OUTDOOR ACCESS FORUM 


Title: 		Reviewing the Forum 

Prepared by: 	Fran Pothecary, Outdoor Access Officer 


Purpose 

To review the operation of the Cairngorms Local Outdoor Access Forum 


Recommendations 

Forum members are invited to complete the short questionnaire and return it to the 
Secretariat by the end of April 2007. The results will be collated and presented to the Forum 
as part of the final review at the next meeting in August. 


Background 

1. 
The Cairngorms Local Outdoor Access Forum will have been operational for two 
years in April 2007. The Operating Principles indicate that a full review of the 
operation of the Forum will take place two years from March 2005. 

2. 
In addition good practice guidance from Path for All Partnership and Scottish Natural 
Heritage recommend that there should be a critique of the activities and progress of 
the Forum informed by the views of the Forum members themselves, the access 
authority and relevant third parties. 

3. 
At the last meeting it was suggested that the review should highlight the strengths, as 
well as areas for improvement, of the Forum. It was also suggested that the Park 
Authority feedbacks to Forum members on the use of the Forum to their work. Both 
these issues will be addressed in the final paper. 


Fran Pothecary 
Outdoor Access Officer 

franpothecary@cairngorms.co.uk