A walking and cycling path connecting Lavington and Jindera is a possibility again, as Greater Hume councillors seek to reconvene a working committee with their Albury counterparts.
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At the request of Cr Denise Knight, Greater Hume has committed to re-establishing a planning group disbanded in 2012, "with the aim of preparing a feasibility study and plans for a shovel-ready project".
At Wednesday's council meeting, Cr Knight had the folder of documents belonging to the previous committee.
"It predominately contains some of the correspondence back and forward, and a quite considerable petition taken up probably three years ago," she said.
Following local government elections in 2012, councillors passed a motion to abandon the planning, being of the opinion the resources could be put to better use.
Greater Hume general manager Steven Pinnuck said the other issue in 2012 was that at the time, Albury Council "was concentrating on tracks around the Murray River".
"They're perhaps keen to have a look at it now," he said.
"They believe they probably have the resources in-house to at least do a feasibility study."
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The Albury leg would be the most complicated of the two sections.
Previous proposals had the path joining up to the Bungambrawatha Creek Trail in Albury and following Urana Road to Jindera.
Cr Jenny O'Neill was a member of the joint committee.
"They realised it probably wasn't going to happen unless there was external funding, but the committee was happy to continue along the way it was," she said.
Cr Knight said there was "quite a bit of interest" in the project.
"Justin Clancy is quite interested in this and has spoken to Albury (council) about it," she said.
In a statement, Albury mayor Kevin Mack said his council looked forward to receiving further information "to help us assess this proposal".
"We're keen to support improvements to our bike and pedestrian network and welcome the request from Greater Hume Shire to further consider the feasibility of this link," he said.
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