The Scottish Government

Priority Code

Public Access Priorities

Relevant Packages

AYR25

Improved public access provision through the creation, improvement and promotion of paths and other facilities,* with priority given to:

• an increase in quality and provision of routes in and around communities (particularly where health and community need is greatest)
• an increase in quality and provision of routes between communities
• an increase in quality and provision of routes to, through and along places of interest, e.g. coasts, woodlands, inland water, uplands, viewpoints, river corridors, historical sites
• improving users' and land managers understanding of outdoor access and land management issues in the context of the Scottish Outdoor Access Code through provision of interpretation, signage, leaflets, presentations, workshops and site visits
• assistance with the suitable implementation and monitoring of core paths and routes identified in core paths plans.

(*other facilities refers to bridges, toilets, car parking, dog walking areas, launch sites with changing areas, informal campsites, etc.)

Particularly proposals that:

• promote community path development; core paths but also paths that link with core paths and paths that link communities
• link communities to each other or that link communities to the wider countryside and wider path networks
• support, in more general terms, routes identified in strategic policies or plans such as access strategies or transport strategies
• support diversionary routes around farm buildings where land managers have difficulties in managing access through farmyards
• deliver health and community benefits.