Thanks for your comment. This way is on an area of land that has been recently acquired by the National Trust from the local council. As part of the acquisition, the NT inherited the existing access permissions and signage from the council, along with the responsibility for the path surface maintenance, benches, and rescue cabinets. The bins which are just on the margins of NT land are the responsibility of the council. 

The B&NES PRoW Team and our local Estate Manager have confirmed with us that this cycleway is permissive on foot and by bicycle, and not a designated right of way. This includes the bridge over the Avon which was not included in the Trust’s acquisition. Though we can appreciate the existing signage on this way does not clearly denote that this way is permissive, we have planned works on waymarking and navigation as part of our national Paths & Trails programme and have raised this to the manager responsible for this workstream. We are not looking to remove access, rather, we want to keep it open on a permissive basis, as this reflects the legal access rights.
