Saving green laws from the chop
The red-tape challenge is a public consultation exercise aiming to reduce regulatory burdens on business. It is looking at every law and regulation in the land including ones designed to protect the environment.
We need your help to tell the government that laws to protect our precious green spaces such as National Parks must not be axed. If anything they should be toughened so that National Parks can survive the constant pressure that they face from a range of different threats.
Please go to the Cabinet Office website and let the government know that our green laws are not red tape and that they should not be axed. Don't worry about the detail; it's important that the government gets a clear message that green laws are not for the chop.
4 points that it would be helpful to make:
- National Park designation protects these fragile environments but also ensures a viable economic future for these areas as many National Park businesses thrive on the high quality environment that results from designation
- While many green laws protect our countryside they also send a clear message to business about the kind of development that is appropriate in landscapes such as National Parks
- Green laws such as the Countryside and Rights of Way Act deliver major benefits to people through their safeguarding of access and rights of way
- Wildlife laws protect important species and habitats - as pressure on our natural resources grows these laws should be strengthened not weakened
