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Meeting: 24/03/2009 - Local Countryside Access Forum (Item 46)

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Minutes:

It was reported that there were now 3 relevant e-mail addresses and these would be sent to the Forum Members:

rangers@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

biodiversity@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

rightsofway@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

(Action: Sally Coulson)

 

It was reported that Bracknell LCAF was currently recruiting for new members. Sally Coulson would attend an Access Advisory Panel meeting on 7 April 2009 to see if any of the panel members would be interested in becoming a member of the LCAF. It was suggested that the Berkshire Disability Information Centre could be contacted also with the aim to recruit a member to represent disabled interests.

(Action: Sally Coulson)

 

Bracknell had received £1million for 22 new play areas in the Borough as part of the Play Builder Programme to encourage activity amongst children. Early Years would work in partnership with Parks & Countryside and Parishes in the Borough to improve existing play areas as part of the new initiative ‘Play-Builder/Path Finder’.

 

Restoration work had begun on the South Hill Park site which was a £4.5million project involving improvements to the landscape. Stage 1 was almost completed and the bid for Stage 2 would go in next week.

 

It was reported that Wildmoor Heath in Bracknell had been granted funding for access previously as part of the Natural England Access Management Scheme and that all applications for the Scheme in 2009/10 needed to be in by September 2009. High profile projects were needed to attract the attention of Natural England. Money for the boardwalk improvements would be carried forward into the next financial year due to the wet conditions preventing work from being carried out.


 

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Email: committee@bracknell-forest.gov.uk