FOR25 | 25. Improved public access provision through the creation, improvement and promotion of paths and other facilities*, with priority given to proposals that: (*other facilities refers to bridges, toilets, car parking, dog walking areas, launch sites with changing areas, informal campsites, etc.) - 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.
Particularly proposals that: - support communities in progressing their access priorities, where these also help to meet health and environmental objectives
- develop routes between settlements or link settlements with the wider countryside, where this is identified in an access strategy or transport strategy
- develop routes that provide access for a range of users of all abilities
- develop diversionary routes around farm buildings where this will resolve an existing problem
- develop routes within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Pentlands Regional Park and Fife Regional Park, and to these areas from surrounding settlements
- develop routes which provide access to and along the Forth estuary, or which contribute to the Forth access initiative and proposed Round the Forth route
- support implementation of the Central Scotland Forest Access Strategy, particularly routes providing links across the Forest area
- support routes which link to the Helix project in Falkirk
- help combat path erosion, both natural and due to recreation pressure, on high priority routes, particularly in upland areas
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