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PACE Process
THE "PACE" PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING GREENWAYS
The Greenways demonstration projects made use of the "PACE" process when planning their work. This management tool was developed by ajt Environmental Consultants who provided central support to the demonstrations. The process can be summarised as follows:
Each stage needs to be followed in a logical sequence, ie Plan, Activate, Check and then Enable. PACE is not intended as a prescriptive set of rules or as an exhaustive process of methods and techniques, but more as a tool to guide and assist practitioners. In this context, PACE provides a structured and consistent approach to developing, implementing and managing Greenways.
- Stage 1 PLAN - the first steps to developing your project
- Stage 2 ACTIVATE - putting together a Greenways Strategy
- Stage 3 CHECK - ensuring that you have all the necessary project components in place to proceed
- Stage 4 ENABLE - getting the project on the ground and managing the network
PLAN - The first steps to developing your plan
- Produce a project brief identifying the opportunity for developing Greenways locally
- Organise Greenways partnership involving key stakeholders
- Establish a vision for the proposed Greenways network
- Establish clear and measurable objectives and targets
- Carry out a desktop study of existing local plans and strategies to identify the policy framework
- Produce an outline project plan and resource appraisal
- Establish an outline budget
- Estimate timescale for a project programme
- Carry out local assessment
- Involve the community to find out what they want from a Greenways Network
ACTIVATE - Putting together a Greenways Strategy
- Carry out community consultation exercises
- Complete a physical assessment of the proprosed network of routes
- Consider the necessary management and maintenance requirements for the network
- Instigate any legal processes necessary to open routes to users
- Pursue any planning issues with the planning authority, landowners and statutory agencies
- Review traffic issues particularly at road crossings
- Estimate capital and maintenance costs
- Identify potential funding sources and make applications
- Design an information plan to keep all sections of the community informed during the life cycle of the project
- Complete a safety plan for the network
- Draw up a strategy for developing the network.
CHECK - ensuring that you have all the necessary project components in place
- Check community endorsement of the strategy
- Review the project against the original aims and objectives
- Ensure your publicity and information giving is adequate
- Confirm all the necessary planning and legal processes have been completed
- Check that the outline budget is sufficient and funding applications are being made
- Set targets for monitoring and evaluation
- Identify and examine the potential impacts of the project
ENABLE - getting the project on the ground and managing the network
- Design physical works - design considerations are likely to include:-
- interpretation and promotion
- user requirements - walkers, horse riders, cyclists, sports training, land management access, wheelchairs, powered chairs, push chairs
- impact mitigation and avoidance
- shared surfaces
- segregation
- highway links
- junctions and crossings, off road, minor roads, links along major roads
- trunk, major road and motorway crossings
- traffic calming - motorised and non-motorised
- surfaces and construction details
- signing
- distance markers
- barriers
- play structures
- fencing
- planting
- other facilities e.g. refreshments, toilets...
(NOTE: the principle of inclusive access provision should inform everything, and not be a seperate issue)
- Carry out construction programme
- Keep local people involved during implementation
- Maintain high profile of project with ongoing publicity
- Monitor user flows on and around the network
- Return to PLAN stage if monitoring shows need for alteration to strategy
