Environment and roads

The County Council

The Council’s responsibilities for rights of way are:

• to keep the Definitive Map under continuous review
• to ensure that the Definitive Map is made available to the public
• to maintain public rights of way and keep them free from obstruction
• to waymark and signpost rights of way

Responsibility for maintenance of paths is shared between the Rights of Way (RoW) Service and Herts Highways (HH):

• Bridleways (BR), Restricted Byways (RB) and Byways Open to All Traffic (BOAT) and non tarmac UCRs are maintained by the RoW Service.
• Cycleways are managed by David Burt of HH, at their WGC Office.
• Footpaths (FP) are split between tarmac alleyways managed by HH, all other footpaths are managed by RoW.
• Footways (pavements) and tarmac Unclassified County Roads (UCRs - sometimes called Green Lanes / White Roads) are the responsibility of HH.