Agenda item

-  LAF Chair Meeting held on 5^th Feb 2015, outcomes and next meeting

-  M4 Smart Motorway project

-  Big Pathwatch

-  Huddle

DM and JW attended the Joint LAF Chairs Meeting on 5^th February 2015.  The officers are working on a GIS layer so that cross boundary issues can be mapped.  The next meeting is due to take place on 2^nd June 2015. 

Multi-User Route –

JW updated members about the next stage of the multi-user route which the RBWM LAF is pushing to extend towards Maidenhead along the Jubilee River.  There have been no complaints or problems with the previous section (Wood Lane east towards Eton) for which Eton College have agreed to extend the permission for horse riders for another year.  The section of the new route (westwards from Wood Lane) which is inside the Slough boundary is already legal for horse riders to use.  However, RBWM LAF would like Slough LAF support for a joint letter to Bucks LAF to request their help in driving this new provision for horse riders forward.  The complication is that there are multiple landowners. 

Resolved - All members agreed that Slough LAF is happy to support a joint letter as described above.

Summer Site Visits –

JW will put together an action list from each site visit and send photos around. The next visit is on 11^th June 2015 to the SIFE site on the north side of the Colnbrook Bypass. 

SMART Motorway – This item will be on the next meeting agenda.

ROWIP Review – This item will be on the next meeting agenda.

Big Pathwatch – This is a Ramblers Association project aimed at gathering a dataset on path condition for all PRoW across the country.  Volunteers will survey all paths in a 1km OS square and upload data about each path in this grid square to the Ramblers website or via a mobile app.  JW will ask John Keegan to give an update on this at the next meeting.

Huddle – JW will request a Huddle username for Andy Packer.