Maintenance Priorities

Priority Guidance For Dealing With Obstructions And Other Problems on Public Rights of Way.

Priority 1

  • Inspect within: 24 hours
  • Ensure remedial action taken within: 24 hours

Reports of serious hazards where it is perceived that an accident is both possible and likely to be serious, e.g.; missing man-hole covers; dangerous stiles, bridges etc; electric fences on bridleways; trips 20mm or bigger or potholes with lips 20mm or bigger on tarmacked or paved urban paths.

When on site every effort must be made to remove or highlight the problem.

Priority 2

  • Inspect within: 3 days
  • Ensure remedial action taken within: 3 days

Reports of hazards but not thought to be so likely to cause an accident as in "Priority 1" above, e.g. electric fences on well-used footpaths; bulls in fields crossed by paths; trips less than 20mm on tarmacked or paved urban paths; possibly hazardous stiles, bridges etc.   

Priority 3

  • Inspect within: 14 days
  • Target work to be done within: 28 days

Obstructions on WCBC promoted routes, including the Ceiriog Valley "5 Walks" series, or in communities running approved path projects in partnership with this council; obstructions on urban paths; potential hazards not thought serious enough for inclusion in Priorities 1 and 2 above.

Priority 4

  • Inspect within: 28 days
  • Target work to be done within: 3 months, subject to resource availability

Obstructions on paths that have always in living memory been open or have been re-opened in recent years (including promoted routes other than WCBC’s).

Priority 5

  • Inspect within: 28 days
  • Target work to be done within: 3 months, subject to resource availability

Obstructions on paths that a) fall outside priorities 1 to 4 above; b) do not appear to be part of a survey and c) appear to have strategic importance.

Denials from landowner or occupier about the existence of any PROW.

Priority 6

  • Inspect within: Record, inspect only if time available
  • Target work to be done within: No time limit, commission remedial work only if resources are available

Other obstructions.

Notes

Several factors may over-ride the above list. The preparation of a Walkabout Wrexham  route; the provision of a missing link in a walking group’s planned circular route when there is no suitable alternative; and the development of a long distance route, may all attract higher priorities. Occasionally a problem on a cul-de-sac or little used path may attract a lower priority.

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