You can inspect highway records during office hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

We keep records of:

  • street adoptions
  • stopping up orders
  • diversion orders
  • modification orders
  • reclassification orders

Contact Highway Records by email or post:

Email: contact-centre@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

The Woolwich Centre 
35 Wellington Street 
Woolwich 
London, SE18 6HQ

Find out who is responsible for maintaining your street

Use Find My Street to find:

  • where a street is
  • the official street name  
  • who's responsible for maintaining it
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Highways over private land

The land which a highway passes over may be privately owned, but the highway authority has powers and responsibilities which take priority over this. Responsibility for the land will only revert to the owner if the highway is 'stopped up' by a Highway Order.