The UK Department for Transport has published a report titled Making active places 2026.
The item carries the date 22 September 2026 and was issued by the Department for Transport. At the making active places conference the Transport Secretary set out the government’s approach to active travel as presented in the report.
Conference presentation
The department released the report in the same forum in which the Transport Secretary outlined the approach, using the making active places conference as the occasion for the announcement. The presentation at that conference accompanied the publication and established the report’s public introduction.
The document’s stated purpose
The report is presented as the government’s statement of how it intends to approach active travel. That description is the principal factual content supplied in the Department for Transport notice of publication.
The publication and the conference together mark the Department for Transport’s latest formal restatement of its position on active travel. The report title, Making active places 2026, and the conference setting are the two named elements attached to the announcement.
Those seeking the precise wording and the detailed propositions set out by the department are directed to the published document; the Department for Transport’s release carries the authoritative text of the approach. The Transport Secretary’s delivery at the making active places conference is identified in the department’s material as the event at which the approach was set out.
The report’s publication on 22 September 2026 confirms the date on which the department chose to place its approach into the public record. The making active places conference served as the platform for the Transport Secretary’s presentation and for the timed release of the report.
The Department for Transport’s announcement links the written document and the conference presentation directly: the report is the formal statement of the government’s approach to active travel, and the Transport Secretary used the making active places conference to set that approach out.