28/11/2025
Cabinet statement Written Statement: Consultation on updated Active Travel Act Guidance Ken Skates MS, Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I am publishing our updated Active Travel Act Guidance for public consultation. We are revising this guidance to improve the quality of walking, wheeling and cycling schemes, ensure that they are accessible and designed with inclusion at their core.
Our approach in updating the guidance aligns with my ambitions set out in “Travel for All”, aiming to make it easier for more people to use our transport network. The draft revised guidance reflects feedback that we gathered from users of the current guidance, new evidence, as well as policy and regulatory changes since its original publication.
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12/11/2025
The Active Travel Network Map (ATNM) Consultation will run through 2025 and 2026, aiming to provide the Vale of Glamorgan with a network that allows for walking, wheeling and cycling to become the most natural and normal way of getting about for local journeys. And, by doing so, to promote the health and well-being of everyone and to make our towns and villages more liveable places.
Under the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013, all local authorities in Wales must regularly review and improve their walking, wheeling and cycling routes. The current map was approved by the Welsh Government in August 2022, and now it’s time to reflect the changes and improvements made over the past three years.
The Vale of Glamorgan is reviewing and refining the ATNM to include:
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22/10/2025
Transport for Wales, the Welsh Government’s Strategic Road Network team, Torfaen County Borough Council and Monmouthshire County Council are working together to provide a new safe and accessible route that can be used by everyone in the community to walk, wheel or cycle to destinations between Pontypool in Torfaen through to Usk in Monmouthshire.
TfW wants to hear from residents and visitors to the area about their views of the proposed design and route so that it meets the needs of everybody wanting to use it, as far as possible.
The survey will be closed on 27 October 2025. haveyoursay.tfw.wales/pontypool-usk
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06/10/2025
Monmouthshire County Council has announced that funding has been confirmed for the Llanfoist to Castle Meadows Active Travel Bridge. This confirmation represents a significant milestone in the council’s ambitions to enable people to walk, wheel and cycle instead of using their car between Llanfoist and Abergavenny town centre.
With an investment of £10.4 million from the Welsh Government’s Active Travel Fund, the council has appointed Balfour Beatty as the main contractor to begin delivery of the scheme.
While the original full Abergavenny strategic scheme was estimated at approximately £20 million, the project has been designed to focus on delivering the Active Travel crossing, a clear priority for the community and aligned with the current funding available.
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25/04/2025
A new 3D flyover video has been produced by Ceredigion County Council to show how proposals for the Waunfawr to IBERS Active Travel Link scheme will connect the communities of Penrhyn-coch and Bow Street via Comins Coch.
The scheme will provide a ‘Campus to Campus’ link for Aberystwyth University staff and students between Penglais Campus and the new AIEC campus at Plas Gogerddan.
The video also shows further Future Route proposals currently under development which are planned to connect with Existing Routes linking Aberystwyth Town Centre with nearby communities. This provides an overview of the wider walking and cycling network and our vision to help connect people with services, places of education and employment in Aberystwyth.
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28/03/2025
Phase 1 of the ‘Waunfawr to IBERS Active Travel Link’ was completed in April 2024 and construction work is currently underway on next phases of the scheme.
A section of new shared use path adjacent to the TRA487 is scheduled for completion in April, with delivery of this section led by the North & Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent on behalf of the Welsh Government. The next section from Dorglwyd Junction up to the bus stop next to Brongwinau Estate is programmed for construction work in the next financial year and once connected this will complete Phases 1 and 2 of the scheme. Shared use paths provide dedicated and safer provision for cyclists and pedestrians to make active travel journeys.
Construction work for the new shared use path is also currently underway near IBERS crossroads which forms one of the sections of Phase 3. A grant funding application has been submitted to Transport for Wales for another section within Phase 3 and if successful, construction work will also commence here next financial year.
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11/03/2025
A Powys company backed last year by the county council with a growth grant, has now picked up some extra investors on BBC ONE's Dragons' Den.
Stashed Products, makers of space-saving bike storage systems, was successful in securing £25,000 from the council towards the cost of making improvements at its base in Abermule and for staff training, with the aim of creating three full-time jobs in 2024. Now, owner Elliot Tanner has got the offer of investment from a Dragon too.
Elliot said: "Stepping into the Den was one of the most intense experiences of my life. My mind went blank just as I stepped through the lift doors, and I could barely remember my own name. When I got into my stride though, I started to really enjoy the whole experience.
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04/03/2025
Flintshire County Council has secured Welsh Government funding to deliver significant active travel and sustainable travel improvements in Aston and Hawarden.
The upcoming scheme will enhance connectivity along Lower Aston Hall Lane, providing a shared-use off-road footway/cycleway facility. This will link with the recently completed Aston Hill/A494 shared-use path, providing a safer and more accessible route for pedestrians and cyclists. Additionally, the project will deliver a new zebra crossing and essential carriageway improvements which will further support safe and sustainable travel.
The work on Lower Aston Hall Lane has now begun and will last approximately 10 weeks. Traffic management measures will be in place throughout the construction period, with access maintained for residents, local businesses, and the travelling public. Flintshire County Council appreciates the continued cooperation and support of the local community during these essential works, which will deliver long-term benefits for all.
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20/02/2025
Improvements to paths near Ysgol Godre'r Berwyn are having a positive effect and enable more pupils and residents to walk and cycle in this area of Y Bala.
Following concerns about the safety of pupils in the Ysgol Godre'r Berwyn area, Y Bala over the years, Cyngor Gwynedd secured £248,000 of funding from the Welsh Government's Safe Routes in Communities fund to improve active travel options near the school.
Cyngor Gwynedd’s Cabinet Member for Environment, Councillor Craig ab Iago said: “As a Council, we’re committed to enabling more sustainable travel in our communities, and to make it easier for children and families to walk and cycle to and from school.
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13/02/2025
Children in low-income families in Cardiff are benefitting from a new scheme providing free, recycled bikes.
The ReCYCLE scheme forms part of Council's One Planet Cardiff response to climate change and aims to enable more children to use active travel to get to and from school by overcoming the cost barrier of buying a bike.
The donated bikes used in the scheme are all no longer needed by their original owners, but instead of going to waste they are refurbished with recycled parts, ready to be used again.
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