Bicycle Victoria announced on 7 August 2009 on its web site that the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) had approved the issuing of permits for the Lower Darebin Trail and associated bridge over the Yarra.

The path arrives at Childs Road, 1.3 km further along, having crossed a small footbridge earlier.

After crossing McCleans Road, the path splits in two, as it enters a Norris Bank Reserve.

On the south side of Settlement Road the path continues on the west side of the creek for 2.6 km until it reaches the eastern end of Rathcown Rd, by a paddock full of shaggy sheep where there is a new bridge crossing.

(An on-road shortcut is to continue west along Rathcown Rd for 600 metres to a path on the left that re-connects to the Darebin Creek trail).

An unsigned path looms up on the left, that leads to the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University and is surveyed by a lone park bench.

The trail continues south past another footbridge on the right (west) that leads to Northland Shopping Centre.

After another 500m the trail forks at a wooden boardwalk section: To the left (east) it crosses a footbridge.

Community advocacy groups worked over a twenty-year period to achieve this impressive outcome.