A plan to create a £50m public coastal access path around England has been scaled back due to funding cuts with Kent being one of the five pilot areas affected. Natural England, who was tasked with creating the trail,  had to re-assess its plans as a result of a 5% reduction in its budget for this year and needed to assess the scope and delivery of some  of its in-year programmes. A spokesperson for NE stated that “the availability of funding for a wider roll-out of coastal access schemes will become clearer following the Comprehensive Spending Review process, expected to be completed this Autumn”.