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The health benefits of walking are increasingly recognised and availability of adequate and appropriately located access to the countryside is seen as important economically from the tourism perspective. These realities have been grasped by administrations in countries in GB as well as in the Republic of Ireland with positive actions reflected in visionary strategies backed up by legislation and investment to optimise opportunities for access to the wider countryside and coast. Council has considered the position in Northern Ireland and drawn up a Position Statement.
Link to Position Statements(pdf) 
You can contact the CNCC using the details below:
CONTACT DETAILS:-
Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside
The Secretariat
1st Floor, Calvert House
23 Castle Place
Belfast
BT1 1FY
Telephone - 02890 254835
Fax - 02890 254856
mailto:secretariat-hillst@doeni.gov.uk
