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In 2005 CPRE West Midlands joined with other environmental organizations in the region to produce a manifesto for improving the environment of the West Midlands. While the political architecture has changed we still believe there is a need to address the long term challenges to the environment and the countryside across the region.
‘Enriching our Region’ (link
to pdf file download) presents challenging but achievable proposals
for environmental improvements which will benefit the people of
the West Midlands and help the region to play its part in revitalising
our urban areas, protecting our natural environment and our heritage,
reducing harmful pollution and keeping our countryside beautiful.
It aims to make the West Midlands a more attractive area in which
to live, work and spend leisure time.
The Manifesto set out how the environment in the
West Midlands is one of its greatest, and often unsung, assets,
from Stratford on Avon to the Staffordshire Moorlands, but also
how in some areas the environment is degraded or neglected, particularly
in some run down urban areas.
The Manifesto highlights four areas where action
is particularly needed. It calls for land use and transport policies
to be in tune with environmental concerns, for greater effort to
resolve global environmental issues, for policies which ensure the
right population balance and stop the unsustainable drift to the
shires and for much greater emphasis on protecting and enhancing
natural assets such as woodlands and waterways.
And the Manifesto sets out specific actions that
could be undertaken by central and local government, the business
community and individual people to achieve the change needed.
The NGOs behind the report all belong to the West Midlands Regional Sustainability Forum. You can read quotes from other organizations supporting the Manifesto here - click
for Press Release
12.08.10 |
