The council's responsibilities
- To maintain and keep under review the definitive map of Rights of Way
- To display the definitive map in council offices
- To maintain the surface of rights of way including the control of natural vegetation growing on them
- To assist farmers and landowners with maintenance of approved stiles and gates
- To signpost footpaths, bridleways and byways where they leave a metalled road, and to carry out way-marking where necessary to help the public find their way
- To maintain most bridges crossed by rights of way
- To receive complaints and take appropriate action
- To assert and protect the rights of the public to use and enjoy rights of way
This page was last updated on 3 October 2009
