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Horwood rallies party against RSS
September 21, 2009 8:00 AM
CHELTENHAM MP Martin Horwood will today rally his party to support his plans to protect the UK's biodiversity and restore its natural environment.
Speaking to party conference in Bournemouth, Martin will urge members to support the policy paper, Our Natural Heritage: Policies on the Natural Environment. This policy, among other measures to protect and enhance the UK's natural environment, would scrap the controversial Regional Spatial Strategy housing targets which are threatening greenfield land around Cheltenham.
Martin said, 'I am delighted to be moving this conference motion today. Our policy on the natural environment has been widely welcomed by conservation charities and green groups. But for Cheltenham in particular, the commitment to ditch those RSS targets is really important. Locally and nationally, you can trust the Lib Dems to protect our green spaces.
'Our Natural Heritage also calls for tough action internationally on deforestation to tackle serious climate change. And it calls for radical reform of the remit of Ofwat so that profit is not put above people.
'The Lib Dems have a long history of being the greenest of the political parties and this policy will strengthen our record.'
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