ABSTRACT

This chapter considers the roles and issues of countryside management writ broad across the landscape. There are synergies and tensions with partnerships and sometimes competition for resources, space, and control between different key actors in the countryside arena. Using particular themes, the chapter examines some key issues and opportunities that arise. It argues that countryside management services provides the best interface between local people, visitors, and other countryside professionals, such as farmers and foresters. However, the delivery of countryside management occurs within a complex and ever-changing web of policies, strategies, issues, and aspirations, fluctuate locally, regionally, nationally, and globally, as needs and priorities vary. The establishment of long-distance trails such as the Pennine Way and the Coast-to-Coast path, the idea of creating recreational routes has taken off in a big way. Thus, the effort was made to complete the mapping and verification of the PRoW networks, with local authorities maintaining the Definitive Map.