LDR COSTS
John Muir Way
Total cost £2.50M
 Path improvements - £2.3M
 Signposting and waymarking - £0.1M
 Website, map and promotion - £0.1M
SNH contribution approx. £0.775M (30%)
Key match funding £1.725M (70%), sources:
 Sportscotland £0.35M
 Sustrans £0.3M
 FCS £0.15M
 LAs £0.7M (£0.3M contributions + £0.4M VAT recovery on contracts)
 SRDP £0.225M
Path improvement breakdown
 Blackness – Bo’ness coastal defences £0.6M+
 Kilpatrick Hills project £0.5M+
 14 locations for spend £10K-100K: East Lothian, Edinburgh, West Lothian, Falkirk, West
Dunbartonshire\Argyll &Bute\LL&TNP
 Largely contributing to local path networks
Unit costs for route improvements
John Muir Way
£2.1M over 210km = £10 per metre
Remove high cost items, £1M over 210km = approx. £5 per metre
Light touch improvements only + signage, £0.2 - 0.4M over 210km = approx. £1-2 per metre
Costs escalated due to improvements for cycling
National walking and Cycling Network (NPF3) cost estimate
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1750km additional routes, cost estimate £50M
Average combined unit cost for walking and cycling routes = £29 per linear metre
Examples:
 Great Trossachs Trail £22\m2
 Hebridean Way £30\m2
 John Muir Way Kilpatricks section £44\m2)
 Darvel to Muirkirk £9\m (average for whole route)
 Crook of Devon to Kinross £46\m (average for whole route)
CSGN Strategic Routes cost estimate
 Functional “green” routes, approx. 5 – 15 miles, shorter than SGTs
(not including urban street infrastructure)
 2500km high quality routes by 2050 (CSGN lifespan)
 Unit costs based on: NCN, Edinburgh City, Clacks, PFA price guide
o 75% of network new route @£150K\km + 25% major engineering + 25% ancillary
costs
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25% of network upgraded route @£50K\km + 25% major engineering + 25% ancillary
costs
1000km by 2025 = £190M
1500km additional by 2050 = £280M
Total £470M
PFA Pricing Guide for Paths Projects
 Whindust – Average cost £18\m2 ( range £10 - £24)
 Toptrec - Average cost £28\m2 ( range £18 - £36)
 Tarmac - Average cost £42\m2 ( range £31 - £48)
Unit costs for maintenance
Examples
 John Muir Way - £600\km (£126K for 210km annually)
o East Lothian Council - £33,000 for 56km = £630 per km
o Falkirk Council and partners - £40,000 for 33km = £1020 per km
o (£400\km for whole path network)
 Inverness to Nairn - £400 per km annually, estimate
 Cateran Trail to Deeside link - £550 per km annually, estimate
Differences caused by?
 nature and intensity of maintenance tasks
 urban or rural
 approaches to procurement
JMW costings
 Signage replacement (100% rolling 10 year programme – 10% per year)
 Infrastructure replacement (100% rolling 10 year programme for small structures, eg. gates –
10% per year)
 Grass-cutting, herbicide application, vegetation strimming
 Drain clearance
 Litter clearance in locations where required
SRDP2 2015 – 2020, Improving Public Access
 £6M total budget
 Open for applications 2015, first payments 2016
 100% standard costs for capital works (based on PFA and FCS price guides)
 Paths, drainage, gates, bridges, fencing, signage, benches, vegetation clearance, etc.
 No tarmac or carparks
 Priority is for improving connectivity
o Core path or link to core path
o Path linking to other paths at land boundary to support local path networks or LDR
o Path linking to feature of interest (eg. viewpoint, loch, historic feature etc
 Scheme managed by SNH
 Map required for application – copied to LA for endorsement
Comparative spend
 Local authorities + matching 2012-13 - £16M
 Total cycling budget 2014-15 - £32M