Active Travel Network Map Consultation 2025/26

The Active Travel Network Map (ATNM) Consultation will run through 2025 and 2026

We want 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. Our 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.

We are reviewing and refining the ATNM to include:

• Existing Routes: These are routes that meet Welsh Government standards for walking, wheeling and cycling (or all three).
• Future Routes: These are proposed routes that either don’t yet exist or need improvements to meet the required standards.

A non-statutory consultation ran from 5 November 2025 until 5 January 2026.  The consultation report is available to read here: Active Travel Network Map consultation report - Phase 1

The comments and suggestions have been reviewed and maps have prepared for 12 week statutory consultation.  This will run from 22nd June to 14th September 2026.  The revised map will be submitted to Welsh Government in December 2026.

Details of the statutory consultation will be posted on this page when it goes live.

The following in person events will be held, and further dates will be added as they are confirmed:

• Saturday 18th July - Vale Nature Festival 1100-1600 at Cosmeston Country Park.
• Wednesday 5th August - National Play Day 1100-1500 at Gladstone Gardens, Barry.