Northern Area Plan 2016
Strategic Plan Framework: Transportation Disused Rail Track Beds

PPS 3: Access, Movement and Parking contains a specific policy AMP 5 – Disused Transport Routes, which protects these from inappropriate development and facilitates their use for transport and recreational use.

The Plan identifies a number of former rail track beds throughout the Plan area. These have the potential to be developed as road lines, public transport routes, cycle or walking routes, and this will be assessed during the preparation of the Sub-Regional Transport Plan.

Some former transportation routes may also have considerable environmental value (flora, fauna, geology and industrial archaeology), which may justify appropriate protection measures if practicable in the context of this policy.