Issue - meetings

John White

John Taylor and Andrew Needham had attended the meeting of the North West Regional LAF Chairs’ on 6 October 2011.   The main topics discussed were:

• Natural England’s agreement to fund regional LAF
• Development of urban area LAFs in Manchester
• Changes to British Waterways
• What was happening to the 10 year review of CROW access maps
• Changes to the National Peak Park Boundaries
• Cattle Free Routes
• Huddle Forum

The Huddle forum had been created by Natural England and was a user friendly network site for Local Access Forums, which enabled discussion with other Forums, information sharing, advice, guidance and access to library of specialised information. 

John White had been invited to join and there was the opportunity for two additional members to join the online community.  Members were asked to let John know if they were interested in joining by the next Forum meeting.