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  • thereby ensuring as much as possible that the outcome is adhered to by users.

  • The entire system is simple, flexible and under constant review, which allows it to evolve to cope with problems, routes can be changed or closed for example to allow regeneration.

As a result of co-operation between the parties involved a set of trail routes were defined which among other things could be managed for recreational vehicles.  The system also allowed recreational vehicle user groups a certain amount of self-regulation including,
            "The use of LARA's codes of conduct and voluntary restraint systems".  (LARA & LDNPA, 1997, p11)
Due to the high levels of co-operation, compliance is good, but has it achieved its aims? 
            "Reports from field officers suggest that recreational motor use is generating fewer complaints than when the project started….  Perhaps a measure of success is that authorities in other areas of England and Wales have heard of the project and want to know what was done, how, and what has been achieved."  (LARA & LDNPA, 1997, p1).
    What the HoTR project has done is show how countryside recreation can be sustainably managed, and created a model which other Authorities can import or use parts of, for their own rights of way management systems.  Considering that the Lake District is one of Britain's most scenic, most popular tourist locations they have shown that if co-operation rather than confrontation can work there then it can surely work throughout the rest of England and Wales.

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