That this House reaffirms its commitment to preserve National Parks and defend the Protected Landscapes Duty; maintains that it is paramount that we protect National Parks as a means of ensuring that we all have access to nature and promote healthy ecosystems; notes that 90% of rivers in the South Downs National Park are not achieving a good status for nature and that any such decision to remove environmental protections now, or in the future, would be catastrophic; welcomes the findings of the Independent Water Commission to replace Ofwat as the water regulator; and urges the Government to get on with setting up a new, stronger regulator to hold water companies to account and stop the sewage scandal once and for all, and expand nature-based solutions to improve water resilience and restore precious habitats, especially in National Park areas.
Signatories (26)
- Dr Danny Chambers Sponsor
- Mr Angus MacDonald
- Rachel Gilmour
- Helen Maguire
- Steve Darling
- Susan Murray
- Edward Morello
- Martin Wrigley
- James MacCleary
- Mr Will Forster
- Jim Shannon
- Jess Brown-Fuller
- Steff Aquarone
- Charlotte Cane
- Wera Hobhouse
- Clive Jones
- Zöe Franklin
- Tom Morrison
- Mr Joshua Reynolds
- Vikki Slade
- Sarah Dyke
- Olly Glover
- Siân Berry
- Sarah Gibson
- Dr Al Pinkerton
- Adrian Ramsay