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Question

Your Highways Department or your Countryside and Rights of Way Department is required to maintain the signage that shows your PROWs. Please send me details telling of any standards your local authority uses to sign the following: • Greenway Roads or Routes (for vehicles up to say 0.5T) • Green Lanes for heavier vehicles • Mountain Bike Routes • Cycle Routes • Public Footpaths (pedestrians only) • Mountain Paths • Public Roads – such as Byways, tracks, Roads used as a Public Path and others • Bridleways • Long Distance Footpaths • Permissive Paths • Paths across Open Ramblage • What happens where a sign refers to more than one of the above routes • The PRoW number or description • The start point • The end point • The distance between points on the PRoW

Answer

A local authority has a duty under the Countryside Act 1968 s 27 to signpost all footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and byways where they leave a metalled road. Signposts must indicate the nature of the public right, whether it is a footpath, bridleway, etc. Authorities have discretion whether they want to indicate the destination of the way and distance, we do not indicate this on our signs. All our signage conforms to the statutory instrument, Traffic and sign regulation and general direction 2002.