Training News

Bookings now being taken for the following courses to training@iprow.co.uk:

Money is short and you may be taking on new areas of work. If one is drafting orders, make sure you know exactly what you are doing — making an order once is expensive enough, don't make the errors that mean you have to do it twice!

~ Drafting Orders | 15 September | Bath — special price £180/£254 this course only

Surveying Skills — practical, low-tech marking out a line from a map, and plotting a route to a map, basic skills that every rights of way officer needs in their back pocket for the instances when you have to accurately define the line on the ground or the map. A belligerent landowner or developer may accept a line marked from offsets and measurements more easily than what the GPS says! Besides, the GPS doesn't always work, especially after you've dropped it in the stream/mud/scree and it took two hours to get to site, so you really can't afford to come back to do the job again...

~ Surveying Skills | 23 September | Knuston, Northants

With cost-cutting, many authorities are reviewing their charges for public path orders and, more than ever, it is crucial that your orders are successful so that they cost you as little as possible. The course Successful Path Orders points out the pitfalls that trap the unknowing with expensive order failures. Improve your success rate and reduce your workload!

~ Successful Path Orders | 28 September | Derby

New starters are strongly recommended to attend both Law and Practice courses, whatever their role. Being conscious of all aspects of rights of way work saves money in the long run and adds to the versatility of your team. It also ensures that less mistakes are made and introduces good efficient practices which cut costs straight away.

~ Definitive Map and Public Path Order Law and Practice | 13/14 October | Knuston, Northants

~ Maintenance and Enforcement Law and Practice | 19/20 October | Knuston, Northants
 

Details from training@iprow.co.uk or on the website. All courses £220 members/£299 non-members.

Last chance to book for the IPROW Conference will be on 6/7 September at Cambridge. Details on the website. Sessions include: Think Radical! meet the challenge of funding cuts; a holistic approach to enforcement, S31(6), risk assessment on promoted routes, private vehicular rights and NERC, digital consolidated maps.