Annual Action Plan 2009-10

This annual action plan sets out in detail the work that will be undertaken to deliver projects through the Cumbria Rights of Way Improvement Plan (ROWIP) for the period 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010.  The three partner organisations (Cumbria County Council, the Lake District National Park and the Yorkshire Dales National Park) supported by other organisations in the Cumbria Countryside Access Partnership have worked together to add specific projects and activities for the forthcoming year.  The three Local Access Forums have worked with us on this annual action plan.

The plan is a combination of carry over (long term) projects from the 2008/09 action plan, projects that for resource issues have not yet been initiated in the previous financial year, continuing work programmes that all the access authorities undertake and new, named high scoring ROWIP projects.

We have included 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 2010” column.  We have 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-March, at the "Cumbria Countryside Access Partnership Board" 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.

Download the annual action plan 2009-10 (262 KB)

Annual Action Plan 2008-09

Cumbria County Council worked with our two National Park partners to produce this annual action plan, with the advice of the three Local Access Forums.  It covered the period 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2009.  You can still download a copy of the action plan here.

The three partners who are working to deliver the Cumbria Rights of Way Improvement Plan (Cumbria County Council, Lake District National Park Authority and Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority) will be producing a Delivery Report before October 2009 which will illustrate the successes and difficulties faced during the 2008-09 year.

Download the annual action plan 2008-09 (177 KB)