P-06-1271 Acquire the land from Network Rail on which ATR884 runs as a permissive path and arrange maintenance – Correspondence from the Petitioner to the Committee, 26 May 2022

Thank you for your email.  I would like to emphasise that, although as stated above this route is shown as an existing active travel route, the land on which it sits is owned by Network Rail.  Network Rail have no interest in maintaining the path and the ideal answer would be for BCBC to take it over and run in conjunction with Sustrans as other paths such as the Ogmore ATR are. BCBC appear to have little interest in taking over this route due to the amount of bridges which would require ongoing maintenance.

As a  matter of interest during 2014 i sent a 1200 signature petition to Cllr. P. White asking for BCBC to consider taking the route over, but apparently this never even saw the light of day!