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Does an obligation to maintain and keep in good repair a footpath or track, include an obligation to maintain and keep in good repair the underlying private bridge, beneath the footpath or track?

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Published on: 11 August 2016

The responsibility for maintenance of a footpath over a bridge and the bridge itself depends on a number of variables which need to be investigated further including:

  1. •

    has the footpath been adopted and maintained by the local authority?

  2. •

    when was the bridge constructed?

  3. •

    who constructed it and for what purpose?, and

  4. •

    what agreements/covenants, if any, have been entered into on transfer ownership?

A bridge carrying the weight of a highway may, in its entirety, be part of a highway

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