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Core Paths - Scotland

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Every local authority and National Park authority (access authorities) in Scotland is required to draw up a plan for a system of paths (core paths) sufficient for the purpose of giving the public reasonable access throughout their area.

Core paths are paths, waterways or any other means of crossing land to facilitate, promote and manage the exercise of access rights under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, and are identified as such in access authority core paths plan.

There are, intentionally, no set physical standards for core paths. This means that core paths can physically be anything from a faint line across a field to a fully constructed path, track or pavement. The National Access Forum, Scottish Natural Heritage and Scottish Government are encouraging information to be surveyed and made publicly available, in a nationally-standardised form, so that the public will know what physical type of route they can expect. Government guidance is making core paths the priority for rolling out this national standardised grading system information, which is set out at https://www.pathsforall.org.uk/resources/resource/the-path-managers-guide-to-grading

Dataset Created
11/06/2021
Licence
Open
Contact
Improvement Service
Last Updated
22/02/2024
Data Provided by
Improvement Service
Alternative Name
cpth
Lineage
This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub. The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data: - Lines are dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority. - The minimum line length allowed in the data is 1 metre - Checks for invalid geometry types - The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees - Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data - Duplicate key names for lines are not removed - Lines with no key names are not removed - Checks for basic geometry i.e. self-intersection - Where a line overlaps a local authority boundary (or any other input data) it is not altered. - Where a line has a gap of up to 1m to another line, it is snapped to it. Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details.
SSDI Link (External Site)
Frequency of Update
annually
Formats:
WFS WMS SHAPEFILE GEOJSON
path_name path_code sect_code notes grade local_authority la_s_code
None SA30 220 Core None South Ayrshire S12000028
Portyerrock to Garlieston 428 WHIT/428/2 None 4.14 Dumfries and Galloway S12000006
A923 Tullybaccart car park to Laird's Loch KTNS/131 KTNS/131/2 Unknown, No known access issues, No 1 Perth and Kinross S12000048
None 9078Fy/05 None None None Stirling S12000030
None LBS116c LBS116c None None Cairngorms National Park None
C041(c) - Pottie Circular, Fionphort C041(c) None Single Track Road / Slope - moderate Easy Argyll and Bute S12000035
None LBS109 LBS109 None None Cairngorms National Park None
Kates Wood None 264 https://www.angus.gov.uk/leisure_sport_and_countryside/outdoor_access/angus_core_paths_plan None Angus S12000041
Glespin-Dismantled Railway CL/3456/1 None None None South Lanarkshire S12000029
Drimmie Wood - Forehill to Glendams BLAI/151 BLAI/151/1 PKC, No known access issues, No 1 Perth and Kinross S12000048
Format Last Updated
CSV 20/02/2024
WFS 20/02/2024
WMTS 20/02/2024
Shapefile 20/02/2024
Resources Format Last Updated
Core Paths WFS 20/02/2024 More info