SURVEY – ASSOCIATION OF INLAND NAVIGATION AUTHORITIES
The Association of Inland Navigation Authorities (AINA) would like to find out more about your experience as a volunteer on the waterways. The survey will help them to gain your ideas on how they can improve the experience on waterways for you and others. The survey is part of a wider programme of research being undertaken by AINA throughout the UK and will help further develop the important role volunteering plays in our waterways.
Complete the survey, please note the deadline has been extended to October 22nd 2010, click here.
Consultation – An Invitation to Shape the Nature of England.
Government offers chance for public to input on new environment policy
An invitation to shape the government’s Natural Environment White Paper.
The White Paper will be Defra’s first environmental White Paper in 20 years and comes at a time when honey bees are facing crisis, 97% of our flower-rich meadow has been lost since 1930 and the last 25 years has seen house sparrow numbers decline by 10 million. The discussion document “An invitation to shape the Nature of England” (click here) will gather ideas, knowledge and expertise which will feed into the White Paper.
This document aims to encourage debate about how best to protect and enhance our natural environment, and the valuable services we derive from it. Defra are looking for a wide range of views on all of the issues set out in this document, or any others that you think we have missed. The deadline for responses to this document is 30 October 2010 and details of how to respond can be found via www.defra.gov.uk/environment/natural/
The White Paper is to be published in Spring 2011 and will cover England only.
Consultations: Environment Agency Strategy for Water Related Recreation –
Enjoying Water
July 2010
The Environment Agency is encouraging people to have their say on the future of water sport and leisure development in London and the South East and the Midlands with the launch of public consultations for its Enjoying Water projects.
The Environment Agency has been developing its Enjoying Water plan that aims to place the environment at the heart of future opportunities to develop water recreation. The final plan will help decision makers such as local authorities take an informed view on how to create, protect and improve water sports and leisure development across London and the South East.
In developing the plan the Environment Agency has already spoken to more than 220 recreation users and managers of water based activities, and sites to gather their views, and is now encouraging anyone else with an interest in water sports and leisure pursuits to visit www.brighton.ac.uk/waterrecreation and comment on the findings and opinions already expressed. The consultation is open from 5 July until 30 September 2010.
Strategic Plans for the South West England, East of England and North West of England have also been produced by consultants from the University of Brighton and are available from www.brighton.ac.uk/recreation.
