Public Access Strategy - Methods

• Stage 1:  Review and analysis.  This included in-depth audit work, which examined the supply of access in North Lanarkshire, demand for access (both realised and unrealised), policy relating to access, and potential resources which could be used to support its development.  Analysis of this information allowed the preliminary identification of key issues.
• Stage 2:  A Planning Workshop was held with key local stakeholders to discuss the findings of the audit work, and to build consensus on how the strategy should develop.
• Stage 3: The Workshop was followed by a process of synthesis, bringing together the audit findings with the views that emerged in the discussions.  A vision, aims and more detailed objectives for access were developed at this stage.
• Stage 4:  The work concluded in the preparation of area specific Action Plans, which together form a co-ordinated and prioritised programme of action.  These relate to the mechanisms and structures which are required to implement the strategy, principles or themes which apply across the whole of North Lanarkshire, and more specific recommendations relating to different parts of the area.

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