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Dear Torfaen Council,

Please can you provide me the latest ( providing me with the date used) total mileage of public rights of way (PROW) in your authority area. Can you also provide a breakdown of the PROW network by status of PROW ie Public Footpaths, Public Bridleways, Restricted Byways and Byways Open to All Traffic.

What is the present relevant date of your Definitive Map

Is your prow information available for online viewing on your web site?
If no, is there future intention to do so?

Is your prow information available to be downloaded?

Can you also provide the following

total area of your authority in Km2
total length of paths forming part of a national, regional or local path promoted or managed by the Authority
total length of Adopted / Maintained Public Roads
total length of maintained public roads that do not have a sealed (tarmac or concrete) surface

Yours faithfully,

Rebekah Wryatt

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TCBC, FOI, Torfaen County Borough Council

Dear Ms Wryatt,

 

18/1013: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Thank you for your email dated 02/12/2018 requesting information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.  I have logged your email and will deal
with your request in order that we can respond to you within the statutory
deadline of 20 working days.

 

I will contact you further as soon as the relevant information is
available.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Chris Corten

ASSISTANT COMPLAINTS/FOI MANAGER / RHEOLWR CYNORTHWYOL CWYNION/RHYDDID
GWYBODAETH

Chief Executive’s Service / Gwasanaeth Y Prif Weithredwr

Torfaen County Borough Council / Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Torfaen

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TCBC, FOI, Torfaen County Borough Council

Dear Ms Wryatt,

 

18/1013: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Thank you for your email dated 02/12/2018 requesting information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am now in a position to respond to your
questions as follows:

 

Please can you provide me the latest (providing me with the date used)
total mileage of public rights of way (PROW) in your authority area. Can
you also provide a breakdown of the PROW network by status of PROW ie
Public Footpaths, Public Bridleways, Restricted Byways and Byways Open to
All Traffic.

 

What is the present relevant date of your Definitive Map

 

Is your prow information available for online viewing on your web site?

If no, is there future intention to do so?

 

Is your prow information available to be downloaded?

 

Can you also provide the following

 

total area of your authority in Km2

total length of paths forming part of a national, regional or local path
promoted or managed by the Authority total length of Adopted / Maintained
Public Roads total length of maintained public roads that do not have a
sealed (tarmac or concrete) surface

 

As of 5 December 2018 the breakdown of public rights of way in Torfaen
County Borough Council are as follows:-

 

Registered Public Footpaths      No. 922  covering 333.373 kms

Registered Public Bridleways     No. 17    covering 6.779 kms

Registered Restricted Byways    No. 63    covering 33.172 kms

BOAT’s                                            No. 2       covering
0.177 kms

Total registered Prows = 1004 with a total length of 373.5 kms

 

The Definitive Map and Statement for Torfaen has a relevant date of 1967
and is part of the former County of Monmouthshire’s Map and Statement. The
information is not available on line at present nor have we a date that we
will be able to make it available on the website or as a download.

The total area of the authority is 126 square Kms (49 square miles)

At present there are no national or regional trails passing through the
authority. There are 16 walks leaflets (promoted routes) in Downloadable
format (PDF) that have a combined length of approximately 146 kms. The
longest promoted route is the Afon Lwyd Trail which is a “permissive”
cycleway or leisure route along predominately TCBC owned land that makes
up part of the National Cycle Route No. 492. It runs for 17.181 kms from
north to south of the with some of the sections of the route being
available for bridle access as well as for cyclists and walkers.

The total length of surfaced roads is 455.9 kilometres. We do not record
unsurfaced roads.

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Chris Corten

ASSISTANT COMPLAINTS/FOI MANAGER / RHEOLWR CYNORTHWYOL CWYNION/RHYDDID
GWYBODAETH

Chief Executive’s Service / Gwasanaeth Y Prif Weithredwr

Torfaen County Borough Council / Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Torfaen

Phone/Ffôn: 01495 742170

Fax/Ffacs: 01495 766331

Email/Ebost: [2][email address]

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