Access Audit for Lochaber

What has been your experience of outdoor access in Lochaber. Read more

Background to the project

Lochaber Mountain Access Group (LMAG) was formed in February 2001, as a community response to the Foot and Mouth Crisis. LMAG draws its membership from different areas of the Outdoor Interest Sector, and became a constituted association in the summer of 2001.

‘Every Cloud has a silver lining’

LMAG concluded that one of the most positive things to emerge from the Foot and Mouth Crisis was communication between interest groups.

Active participation in negotiations to enable ‘responsible access’ during this time had demonstrated that co-operation, lobbying and communication between users of the outdoors, businesses dependent on outdoor activity, land managers and the local authority could lead to the achievement of significant results.

LMAG agreed at their AGM to continue to promote dialogue in two main ways:

Participation in local and national access issues

The Scottish Land Reform Bill and Access Code for Scotland
The Nevis Strategy

Community Consultation

The identification of projects which could improve the quality of access in Lochaber

This report focuses on the second of these – the identification of projects aiming to improve the quality of access in Lochaber identified by the community as a way forward