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Flood Recovery Update August 2010

Collapsed Bridge

Significant progress has been made in securing funding for the widespread damage to the public rights of way network caused by the floods in Nov 2009. 

Through joint working with the Lake District National Park some £2.6 million has now been secured from a range of external sources as part of an overall £3.8 million programme of work. A joint business case has been prepared to secure the £1.2 million gap funding from the County Council’s capital budget to enable full delivery of the programme. 

Good progress has also been made in starting to tackle the work. All of the flood impacts across Cumbria have been assessed and scoped – damage to footbridges, path surfaces etc – and a prioritorised programme of repair, replacement and flood proofing developed. Recovery works are well underway within the Lake District, together with some of the substantial lead in work required to rebuild some of the big PROW bridges along the Derwent corridor. 

Subject to securing the gap funding, all of the recovery work will be undertaken across the Lake District and wider Cumbriaover the next 2 years. 

Footbridge Closures

ALLERDALE:

  • Camerton/Great Clifton (Collapsed) - Footpath 222008
  • Navvies Bridge, Workington (Collapsed) - Footpath 529070
  • Memorial Bridge, Cockermouth (Collapsed) - Footpath 223022
  • Portinscale Footbridge (Damaged)

COPELAND:

  • Black Bridge, Egrenont (Damaged) - Footpath 406601

EDEN:

  • Stockbridge and Tirrel (Damaged) - Footpath 364005

SOUTH LAKELAND:

  • Backbarrow (Collapsed) - Footpath 528040

 

Further Information

Further information can be found on flood damaged routes in the Lake District National Park and on roads and bridges that remain closed by following the links below

People walking on canal at ROWIP launch

Welcome to Cumbria County Council's Countryside Access pages!

From here you will be able to access information about Public Rights of Way, Local Access Forums, the Definitive Map, and other aspects of countryside access.  

One of the most popular links from these pages is the electronic working copy of the Definitive Map.  

If you have a problem to report on the Public Rights of Way netowrk then please contact the Highways Hotline below.

Take me straight to the pages about the Definitive Map

Following publication of the final ROWIP, we have now produced an annual action plan.  Follow the link below.  You can download electronic copies of the information.

More news!  - These website pages have recently had a lot of information added to them about two topics : where you can legally and sustainably go if you are a trail biker or 4x4 driver, and, for walkers and open access land, about entrance / exit points and signboard locations.  

Have you been out recently, and noticed a broken gate or stile, or an overgrown path?  Or something else that needs mending?  

You can use the highways hotline to let us know what and where.  Without you, our eyes and ears on the ground, we may not find out about some of these things!  Thank you.  

If you want to link through to more information about reporting a problem on a street or general roads and pathway maintenance, please follow the links on the blue menu, on the left.  

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Highways Hotline
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0845 609 6609