Issue - meetings

The Department for Transport (DfT) had published the new Local Transport Plan (LTP) 2009 guidance and Natural England had worked with the DfT to produce a guidance note on the links between LTPs and Rights of Way Improvement Plans (ROWIP). There had been internal consultation and early input from policy officers.

The new LTP guidance recognised the role of active travel solutions such as walking and cycling. There would be close integration of the ROWIP into the LTP which could look at initiatives for school runs, the cycle network, a ‘walking bus’ for children going to and from school.

Forum Members would be notified of when the public consultation would take place and information from Forum members was welcomed.    

(Action: All)

It would be investigated to see if public transport links could feed into the work of the Forum.

(Action: Councillor Simonds)

Data on footpaths created in 2004 would be updated via voluntary footpath inspectors recording information on data sheets and many data sheets had been returned. This information would contribute to the definitive map review.

Forum members queried why metal signs were sometimes used instead of wooden signs. It was reported that metal signs were used when a public right of way met with a highway, so that this distinction was appropriately signposted.

The agent of the landowners near to the Royal Berkshire Polo Club had responded to correspondence sent to them regarding the proposed Winkfield Bridleway Creation. The obligation was to set out in the document dated 23 June 2000 under S.106 Town and Planning Act 1990 and related to planning permission 625392. Work would begin soon; the bridle path would not be a through route to start with but proposed linkages to the wider network of paths had been identified and an initial survey of the land would now be undertaken.

Three hundred metres of boardwalk was now in place at Wildmoor Heath and some recycled timber had been used for this.

The temporary diversion at Bracknell Footpath 16 had worked well and there had been no complaints while the diversion was in place.

Quotes for remedial works were being sought for a sports pitch at Larks Hill and it was hoped that a permissive bridleway link would be open next year. Priory Fields going towards Watersplash Lane was also another area for a future project.