Manylion y penderfyniad

The Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 places a duty on local authorities to plan for and promote walking and cycling for every day journeys, including the requirement to produce an Integrated Network Map which sets out a 15 year plan for improvements to active travel routes and must be submitted to Welsh Government for approval within a prescribed timescale.

The Integrated Network Map comprises maps of proposed active travel routes and a prioritised schedule of schemes to improve or create these routes, including schemes ready for implementation in the short term and long term aspirational plans.

A statutory 12 week period of public consultation has been undertaken on the Draft Integrated Network Map.

The Integrated Network Map must be submitted to Welsh Government for approval by 3^rd November 2017.

RESOLVED: that:

1.   the Active Integrated Network Map (taking into account the outcome of the public consultation exercise) be approved and;

2.   the submission of the Integrated Network Map to Welsh Government for approval, as set out in the report and appendices be authorised

Approve the submission of the Integrated Network Map to Welsh Government for approval in accordance with the requirements of the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013.