Devon County Council published a draft Rights of Way Improvement Plan (RoWIP) which was used for public consultation in November 2004. This can be downloaded below:

Towards a Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan 2004

• Introduction
• Assessments
• Draft Policies and Actions

The final RoWIP took account of guidance issued by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in 2002:

• Defra Statutory Guidance to Local Highway Authorities 2002 (132KB - pdf help)

The final RoWIP also took account of research:

Developing the Devon Bridleway Network

• Developing the Devon Bridleway Network (Feasibility Study) (383KB - pdf help)

The Case of Multi-use Routes

• Full report (486KB - pdf help) (this is a large document)
• Executive Summary (127KB - pdf help)
• Recommendations and Devon County Council responses (28KB - pdf help)

Citizen Survey 2004

• Citizen Survey 2004 (297KB - pdf help)

Further research will be included here as it becomes available.

Return to the Rights of Way Improvement Plan page.