Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013

JurisdictionWales
(a) for approved maps of existing active travel routes and related facilities in a local authority's area,(b) for approved integrated network maps of the new and improved active travel routes and related facilities needed to create integrated networks of active travel routes and related facilities in a local authority's area,(c) requiring local authorities to have regard to integrated network maps in preparing transport policies and to secure that there are new and improved active travel routes and related facilities,(d) requiring the Welsh Ministers to report on active travel in Wales,(e) requiring the Welsh Ministers and local authorities, in the performance of functions under the Highways Act 1980, to take reasonable steps to enhance the provision made for walkers and cyclists and to have regard to the needs of walkers and cyclists in the exercise of certain other functions, and(f) requiring the Welsh Ministers and local authorities to exercise their functions under the Act so as to promote active travel journeys and secure new and improved active travel routes and related facilities.the route is situated in a designated locality in the area, andthe local authority considers that it is appropriate for it to be regarded as an active travel route.(2) In this section “route” means a highway, or any other route to which the public has access, (including a crossing of a highway or any such route) and which may lawfully be used by, or by any description of, walkers and cyclists.people who walk,people who use pedal cycles, other than pedal cycles which are motor vehicles for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act 1988, anddisabled people not within paragraph (a) or (b) who use motorised wheelchairs, mobility scooters or other aids to mobility.(4) In this Act “designated”, in relation to a locality, means specified, or of a description specified, in a direction given by the Welsh Ministers.density of population,size,proximity to densely-populated localities above a particular size,position between such localities,proximity to community services and facilities, orpotential for other reasons to be a locality, or description of locality, in which more travel is undertaken by walkers and cyclists by active travel journeys.whether the route facilitates the making by, or by any description of, walkers and cyclists of active travel journeys, andwhether the location, nature and condition of the route make it suitable for safe use by, or by any description of, walkers and cyclists for the making of such journeys,(7) In this Act “active travel journey” means a journey made to or from a workplace or educational establishment or in order to access health, leisure or other services or facilities.facilities for shelter, resting or storage,toilets or washing facilities,signage, orother facilities,(9) In determining whether anything constitutes related facilities for the purposes of this Act a local authority must have regard to guidance given by the Welsh Ministers.prepare an existing routes map, andsubmit it to the Welsh Ministers for approval.(2) For the purposes of this Act, “existing routes map”, in relation to a local authority, means a map showing the active travel routes and related facilities in the local authority's area.all persons who have requested the local authority that they be consulted about its existing routes map, andany such other persons as it considers appropriate.the consultation and other steps to be taken in preparing it,the matters to be shown on it, andits form.before the end of the period of 1 year beginning with the day on which this section comes into force, orif the Welsh Ministers by direction given to the local authority specify a date after the end of that period as the date by which it must be submitted to them, no later than that date.a statement of the extent (if any) to which any of the active travel routes shown on it do not conform to standards specified in guidance given under section 2(6) , andan explanation of why the local authority has nevertheless decided that it is appropriate for them to be regarded as active travel routes.(7) When submitting an existing routes map to the Welsh Ministers under this section on any occasion other than the first, a local authority must also submit to them a report specifying how the level of use of active travel routes and related facilities in the local authority's area has changed since the previous occasion on which an existing routes map was submitted to the Welsh Ministers under this section by the local authority.to revise (or further revise) it, andto submit it to them for approval no later than the date specified in the direction.consider whether the local authority has complied with subsections (3) and (4) in preparing it, andconsider the content of the statement and explanation submitted under subsection (6) .must keep it under review,may revise it, andmust submit it to the Welsh Ministers for approval on each occasion on which the local authority's integrated network map is submitted for approval under section 4.(11) The Welsh Ministers may by direction given to a local authority specify an occasion different from that specified in subsection (10) (c) as the occasion on which the local authority must submit an existing routes map to the Welsh Ministers for approval.prepare an integrated network map, andsubmit it to the Welsh Ministers for

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