Local Authority Active Travel Strategies
Transport Scotland provide direct funding local authorities (LAs) each year through the Cycling Walking Safer Routes grant to deliver active travel infrastructure. In 2022-23, the grant was £35 million and shared pro-rata amongst all 32 LAs.
LAs are also encouraged to bid for funding through other Transport Scotland programmes, most notably the Places for Everyone infrastructure fund where LAs consider their active travel strategies and priorities to bid for funding to design and deliver more ambitious and far reaching schemes to encourage and support sustainable travel choices.
LAs are encouraged to develop their own local active travel strategies to articulate their own ambitions for active travel in their respective areas and to demonstrate alignment of their strategic aims with the Active Travel Outcomes Framework and the corresponding 2030 Active Travel Vision.
Below is a list of the current active travel strategies that we are aware of and links to these. Please contact the relevant local authority directly if you have any query regarding these.
- Aberdeen City Council - Active Travel Action Plan - February 2021
- Aberdeenshire Council - Walking and Cycling Action Plan - 2009
- Angus Council - Angus Active and Sustainable Travel Strategy Appendix - February 2021
- Argyll and Bute Council - No ATS
- Clackmannanshire Council - No ATS
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Active travel strategies and plans – March 2023
- Dumfries and Galloway Council - Active Travel Strategy 2 and Delivery Plan 2022-2032 - October 2022
- Dundee City Council - Dundee Cycling Strategy - 2019
- East Ayrshire Council - No ATS
- East Dunbartonshire Council - Active Travel Strategy - November 2015
- East Lothian Council - Active Travel Improvement Plan - October 2018
- City of Edinburgh Council - Active Travel Action Plan - January 2016
- East Renfrewshire Council - Active Travel Action Plan - November 2015
- Falkirk Council - No ATS
- Fife Council - No ATS
- Glasgow City Council - Glasgow’s Active Travel Strategy 2022-2032 - February 2022
- Highland Council - No ATS
- Inverclyde Council - Inverclyde Active Travel Strategy - August 2018
- Midlothian Council - Midlothian Active Travel Strategy 2018-2021 - April 2019
- Moray Council - Moray Council Active Travel Strategy 2022-2027 - November 2022
- North Ayrshire Council - No ATS
- North Lanarkshire Council - Active Travel Strategy 2021-2031 - March 2021
- Orkney Islands Council - Green Travel Plan - November 2016
- Perth and Kinross Council - Active Travel Strategy and Action Plan - March 2018
- Renfrewshire Council - Renfrewshire Cycling Strategy - November 2016
- Scottish Borders Council - No ATS
- South Ayrshire Council - Active Travel Strategy - August 2021
- South Lanarkshire Council - Cycling Strategy - March 2016
- Shetland Islands Council - Active Travel Strategy - March 2021
- Stirling Council - Stirling Active Travel Action Plan - December 2016
- West Dunbartonshire Council - No ATS
- West Lothian Council - Active Travel Plan for West Lothian 2016-2021 - April 2016