CP2528-24 Maintenance and Improvement of Public Rights of Way Framework 2025 - 2029

Framework Agreement is to provide maintenance and improvement works to approximately

5 000 km of Public Rights of Way (comprising footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and

byways), 230 km of off-road recreational trail network (for example, the Tarka Trail) and 590

km of minor road network (mainly unmetalled) including the South West Coast Path National

Trail, for which it is responsible along with the areas covered by the Stover Country Park and

Grand Western Canal Country Park or other land requiring works. The Framework Agreement

may also be used by both Dartmoor and Exmoor National Park Authorities to maintain some

or all of the public rights of way within their park boundaries under an Agency Agreement

with Devon County Council and it may be that works are ordered by either the Dartmoor or

Exmoor National Park Authorities or Devon County Council through this arrangement. Parish

and Town Councils may also need to use the Framework for path works carried out on behalf

of Devon County Council.