I am planning an urban event in a new town/village (approx 4000 houses). The developers have done a great job of creating a crazy mix of
A: Many alleyways and small park features
B: No through roads leading to garages
C: no through residential roads for 20-50 houses
D: small wiggly connecting roads connecting about 50-100 houses
E: 3 or 4 larger roads, big enough for buses, which join up all the other roads and lead traffic to the center, and on to connecting trunk roads.
I'm trying to work out which bits might be suitable for a junior course.
I looked in the rules of orienteering: https://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/images/uploaded/downloads/Rules%20of%20Orienteering%20Effective%202016v3-5%20(2).pdf
These were slightly contradictory as rule 11.5.2 says "virtually traffic free", which would suggest just A (alleyways and parks) and B (no through roads leading to garages), however rule 11.9.10 seems more flexible, which would suggest all but the large estate roads (E in my classification) are OK for juniors.
Here are the rules:
11.5.2 Courses for those under 16 should only be provided if there is a suitable area of traffic-free (or virtually traffic-free) terrain. It is vital that it is advertised in the pre-event publicity which courses are offered and which age classes are recommended to run which course."
11.9.8 Juniors aged under 16 on the day of the competition are not permitted to compete on courses where there are possible routes that require competitors to cross roads with significant traffic unless appropriate traffic management arrangements have been put in place. A disclaimer signed by a parent or guardian does not
circumvent this rule.
11.9.10 Roads with traffic management that induce low speeds (eg 15mph as on many campuses) are acceptable for under 16s as are minor roads with good visibility, but busy public roads are not.