Countryside Access Factbase

Term

Cat

Meaning

AONB

1

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

BAP

1

Biodiversity Action Plan

BBOWT

2

Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

BCU

1

British Canoe Union

BHS

1

British Horse Society

BMC

1

British Mountaineering Council

BOA

1

Biodiversity Opportunity Area

BOAT

1

Byway Open to All Traffic

BoCC

3

Birds of Conservation Concern

BTCV

1

British Trust for Conservation Volunteers

BVPI

2

Best Value Performance Indicator

CA

1

Countryside Act (CA is also sometimes used to mean Countryside Alliance)

CAMS

3

Countryside Access Management System (database and map management system designed for maintaining National Trails, Cycle Routes and Rights of Way.

CC

1

County Council

CCW

3

Countryside Council for Wales (now absorbed into Natural Resources Wales)

CLA

1

Country Land and Business Association (formerly Country Landowners’ Association)

CLOtC

3

Council for Learning outside the classroom

CRN

1

Countryside Recreation Network

CROW

1

Countryside and Rights of Way (Act)

CRWA

1

Countryside and Rights of Way Act (see also ‘CROW’)

CTC

1

Cyclists Touring Club

DECC

1

Department of Energy and Climate Change

DEFRA

1

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

DETR

1

Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions

DfES

1

Department for Education and Science

DfT

1

Department for Transport

DWP

1

Department for Work and Pensions

EHRC

1

Equalities and Human Rights Commission

EPA

1

Environmental Protection Act

GAP

1

Grazing Advice Partnership

GCCC

2

Greenham and Crookham Commons Commissioners

GCCV

2

Greenham and Crookham Commons Volunteers

GPG

3

Good Practice Guide (e.g. the IPROW GPG)

GPS

1

Global Positioning System

GPX

3

GPS (Global Positioning System) Exchange format file

HA

1

Highways Act

HCC

2

Hampshire County Council

HLS

1

Higher Level Stewardship

ICT

1

Information and Communications Technology

IPCC

1

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPROW

1

Institute of Public Rights of Way and Access Management

JNCC

3

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

KML

3

Keyhole Markup Language

LAC

3

Limits of Acceptable Change (a conservation and visitor management methodology)

LAF

1

Local Access Forum

LARA

1

Land Access and Recreation Association

LGA

1

Local Government Act

LNR

1

Local Nature Reserve

LTP

1

Local Transport Plan

LU

1

Livestock Unit

MPV

1

Mechanically Propelled Vehicle (e.g. car, motorbike)

N/A

1

Not applicable

NERC

1

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act

NERCA

1

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (see also ‘NERC’)

NFC

3

Near Field Communications (a technology for secure data transfer between a credit card or smartphone and a reader)

NFU

1

National Farmers Union

NHS

1

National Health Service

NNR

1

National Nature Reserve

NPACA

1

National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act

NRSWA

1

New Roads and Street Works Act

NRW

1

Natural Resources Wales

OCC

2

Oxfordshire County Council

OFCOM

1

Office of Communications (Telecommunications regulator in the UK)

ONS

1

Office for National Statistics

ORN

1

Outdoor Recreation Network

OS

1

Ordnance Survey

OSS

1

Open Spaces Society

PROW

1

Public Rights of Way

QR

3

Quick Response code (a kind of 2-dimensional bar code)

RADAR

1

Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation

RBC

2

Reading Borough Council

RNIB

1

Royal National Institute for the Blind

ROAR

2

Rangers Official Active Response (Volunteers)

ROS

3

Recreational Opportunity Spectrum

ROWIP

1

Rights Of Way Improvement Plan

RSPB

1

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

RTA

1

Road Traffic Act

RUPP

3

Road Used as a Public Path (obsolete category of PROW; RUPPs became Restricted Byways)

s

1

Section of an Act of parliament e.g. s31(6) is subsection 6 of section 31

SAC

1

Special Area of Conservation

SANG

1

Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace

SI

1

Statutory Instrument

SIM

3

Subscriber Identity Module (card in a mobile phone or other device)

SMART

3

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic (Relevant, Reasonable), Time-based

SNH

1

Scottish Natural Heritage

SSSI

1

Special Site of Scientific Interest

SWOT

3

Strengths. Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

TCPA

1

Town and Country Planning Act

TNDC

2

Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre

TRF

1

Trail Riders Fellowship

TRO

1

Traffic Regulation Order

URL

1

Uniform Resource Locator (often referred to as an internet ‘link’)

WCA

1

Wildlife and Countryside Act

WCC

1

Wiltshire County Council

WeBC

2

West Berkshire Council

WkBC

2

Wokingham Borough Council