This table shows the regional priorities relevant to the region you have selected.
Each regional priority has a unique code (column one) which will help you to identify your selected priorities when completing your Statement of Intent/Proposal.
The detailed description (column two) has been provided to help you understand the implications and outcomes being sought by each priority.
The package numbers (column three) will help you to cross reference those relevant packages to the regional priority you have selected, with the full list of packages detailed on the right hand side of the page.
Regional Priority Code | Public Access Priorities | Relevant Packages |
| Public access to the countryside is now recognised as being fundamental to quality of life and particularly health. In Shetland there has always been a traditional freedom of access but as demand and expectations grow there is a continued need for the management of access and support for land managers. | |
| Orkney's Outdoor Access Strategy is 'to promote enjoyment of the outdoors by providing high quality, sustainable access provision, which satisfies the needs and aspirations of teh local community and visitors to the islands.' In Orkney there has been a traditional freedom of access but as demand and excepctations grow there is a continued need for the management of access and support for land managers. | |
| Improved public access provision through the creation, improvement and promotion of paths and other facilities,* with priority given to proposals that provide: (*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.
In particular proposals that: | 18 & 37 |
for Shetland; enhance access to and along routes identified in theShetland Core Paths Plan (not yet completed) achieve the aims of the Shetland Access Strategyprovide interpretation or visitor orientation materials appropriate to Shetland conditions and targeted at user groups develop or strengthen networks of routes, e.g. within and between settlements or linking natural and cultural features improve access facilities for people of all abilities.
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for Orkney; |