HUMAN EXPANSION IS BURYING OUR GREEN SPACES!

Very many thanks, Sophie.  Very good to read.  However, ...

You wrote, "We are currently running a national campaign to put pressure on the government to protect access to green spaces. Specifically we want them to strengthen access provision in the Environment Bill."

I do think the government is ineffective and uncaring, as are their laws that are so easily ignored and, so often, make no difference, in actual fact.  Nothing is ever done to actually provide the better access that might well be enshrined in law.  Local authorities are denied funding so our right to roam is being lost as PROWs become overgrown and stiles blocked or never have steps replaced.  They make laws that we all know will never be enforced and will never make a scrap of difference on the ground.

Even in open access land, PROWs marked on the Explorer maps are unreliable and misleading, based on parish maps centuries old!  We can never rely on them, in this day and age, to be able to get over the wall!

Guy's open access for England and Wales being enshrined in law is irrelevant if footbridges and their access paths are closed through lack of funding for maintenance of the bridges.  What is the point of open access if you cannot climb the walls or fences or by thick hedges or by rivers with no longer a safe crossing?

Access to green spaces are constantly being lost as nature continues to get buried under concrete, brick and tarmac with HS2, roads, homes, offices ... This is all good for economic growth but at the cost of life support systems as greenhouse gases get spewed out in ever greater quantities from all our human economic activity.  Economic expansion but ecological decline, that is shown with climate catastrophe around the world.

Please run a national campaign for more funding to allow us access to the existing rights of way.  Local authorities must appeal to their wealthy council taxpayers for charitable donations.  Run a national campaign against Nature being obliterated by HS2, road and building expansion to cope with our growing population and their demand for more and bigger first, second and third homes.  My Metro Mayor, Andy Street has 3.5 homes that he owns in the UK!  He had the integrity to agree with the questioner that this was correct, I'm glad to say.

The wealthier people become the more green spaces are obliterated by their wealth!  So share the wealth out, equitably.  It's called levelling up or, socialism, like the Diggers and Levellers of past centuries!    This must be Ramblers' policy, don't you think, Sophie and Guy?

Best wishes