Maintaining the City’s footpaths

Did you know that there are approximately 350 km of footpaths across the City of Burnside?

These footpaths help to connect people and places, encouraging active travel and exercise, and linking our neighbourhoods. Ensuring we effectively manage and maintain these footpaths is very important – lucky for us we have an amazing team of people in place to help us do so! Below is a little bit of information on what they do to help keep our footpaths safe.

All footpaths are annually inspected to identify any defects (trip hazards). This involves one of our team members going out to visit and inspect every footpath across the city, and record any defects found. These defects are prioritised to be repaired based on their risk (which includes assessing the size as well as the location) with the highest priority defects being scheduled for repair first.

Each year Council staff repair around 2,800 defects in footpaths and roads. We also have a footpath renewal program which replaces whole segments of footpaths in a similar manner, with those in worst condition being replaced first. This program proactively replaces several kilometres of aged and cracked footpaths every year. The City of Burnside puts a very high level of emphasis on providing a robust program to monitor and respond to footpath defects, committing nearly $1 million per year on replacing and maintaining footpaths.

If you become aware of any defects you are concerned about, you can log them directly with Council at action.burnside.sa.gov.au, which will ensure they are included in the maintenance program.