The final ROWIP was launched in July 2007, four months ahead of the national deadline. Below you can download a copy of the article which appeared in the Westmorland Gazette the following weekend about the launch.
Also, here you can download a summary version leaflet, or if you prefer the full ROWIP and the appendix
Annual Action Plan 2008-09
We have worked hard with our two National Park partners, to produce this annual action plan, with the advice of the three Local Access Forums. It covers the period 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2009.
Many people originally wanted the ROWIP itself to show detail such as specific projects and targets, and at last this information is now available. The information is as up-to-date as we can make it at the time of preparing it (autumn 2007) given that budgets for the next financial year are still being debated. Included is:
- Details about the projects, their component activities and targets. We ask you to note that some projects will take longer than 12 months to make a reality, and that we may need to carry some information forwards to another year, although the sub-tasks of a project may be underway. This becomes clear as you read down the “targets by end of March 2009” column.
- We have also added information about the partners we can identify on each named project, and tried to illustrate (in bold) who a lead partner might be.
- We have also added extra information about “scale” or “resources”, where we have estimated both the staff input and the financial input into a project, and placed it in one of four categories (Small £0k - £10k; Medium £10k - £50K; Large £50k - £100k; and Very Large £100k+).
Please be aware that the contents of our Improvement Plan deal with genuine “improvements” and do not include any of our “statutory duties”. For example, action 1 relates to finger posts. It is a statutory duty to sign rights of way from the roadside. The improvement here is to include additional information on the finger post.
The annual action plan was finalised in mid-January, at the "Improvement Task Group" meeting. You can download the final agreed version here. Much hard work remains to identify the funding sources and lobby government to help make all the planned work a reality.
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Countryside Access Development Officer
Line Manager Andrew Coleman on 01228 226559