Issue - meetings

Please bring ideas for future walks.

Forum members discussed the facilities available for countryside walks in Bracknell Forest, as it had been mentioned that there was a lack of facilities for people with disabilities. It was felt that people with disabilities should be advised of where facilities were available prior to embarking on countryside excursions and that information on facilities should be available in promotional material regarding countryside sites.

Previous site visits had included the Crown Estate at Cranbourne Chase, led by Chief Forrester John Deakin, a Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) walk to trial part of the proposed ‘easy going’ route at the Great Windsor Park, and a joint site visit with the Biodiversity Forum at Horseshoe Lake to see migrating birds and links to the Blackwater Valley Corridor.

Suggested future site visits included:

• The RAF site, The Parks – sports pitches and meadow grass areas would likely be completed before the end of 2011. A possible joint visit with the Biodiversity Forum.
• South Hill Park – the main profile areas were opening soon, otherwise November onwards or Spring 2012 would be good times to visit.
• Englemere Pond
• Swinley Park – Kings Ride, Swinley South or the Park itself.
• Bluebell Walk – possibly Ambarrow Court or the Three Copses and links to the Cut Countryside Corridor.
• A ‘boardwalk walk’ looking at various sites with timber and recycled plastic boardwalks.