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CAIRNGORMS LOCAL OUTDOOR ACCESS FORUM 
Paper Four – Scottish Executive Monitoring of Access Authorities 31 October 2006 



CAIRNGORMS LOCAL OUTDOOR ACCESS FORUM 


Title: Scottish Executive Monitoring of Access Authorities – 
expenditure and duties 

Prepared by: Adam Streeter Smith – Outdoor Access Officer 



Purpose 

The purpose of this paper is to brief the Forum on the requirement by the Scottish 
Executive to return a twice yearly monitoring form on duties and expenditure carried 
out in relation to Part 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 


Background 

1. Part 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 gives a range of duties and powers to the 
Park Authority, including upholding access rights, core path planning and powers to 
amend bylaws being a few examples. In order to monitor progress and expenditure on 
these new powers and duties, the Scottish Executive has put into place a twice yearly 
monitoring regime. This data is collected from all access authorities and complied in a 
database for information at a national level. 

2. The monitoring form itself is divided into three parts: 

Part 1- relates to general access functions and core paths plans 
Part 2- relates to the exercise of powers and duties 
Part 3- relates to expenditure 


3. Part 1 and 2 have to be filled and returned for the periods between April and September 
and October to March. Part 3 has to be filled in from April to March reflecting the 
standard financial year. 


Recommendations 

4. The Forum is asked to note the appended CNPA monitoring return (see Paper Four 
Annex 1) for the period from 1st April 2006 to 30th of September 2006. Forum members 
may also view the national picture available at the following link: 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Countryside/16328/AccessAuthorities 

5. The summary page of the national picture is attached at Paper Four Annex 2. 


Adam Streeter Smith 
Outdoor Access Officer 
October 06