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We have published our manifesto for the 2015 Westminster election. We are calling on politicians of all parties to support these policies.
Good-quality paths and green spaces are vital to people’s well-being and they support the economy too. So we are urging politicians to adopt policies which protect and promote commons, greens, other open spaces and public paths.
Jack & Jill Hill, Radstock. Bath
In summary, we propose that everyone should have access to good-quality green space close to their home, and we suggest how this can be done.
We have called for a reversal of the damaging new law which makes it impossible to register land in England as a village green where that land has been earmarked for development.
To ensure our public paths are properly protected and maintained, highway authorities must have sufficient funding to carry out their statutory duties. Grants to landowners should be conditional on all public rights on their land being unobstructed.
Local authorities should have a duty to take action against unlawful works on common land, and there should be a 20-mph speed limit on all unfenced roads across commons, to preserve their open atmosphere while enabling them to be grazed.
You can read our manifesto here.