The Environment Agency has launched a 6 month consultation called “Working Together” with the aim of improving local water environments and Oliver Heald, MP for North East Hertfordshire, is encouraging constituents to submit their views.
The consultation is open for six months until 22nd December 2012 and access to it online can be found here https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/portal/ho/wfd/working/together2012 . The consultation is an opportunity for the public to respond to the Environment Agency’s proposed plans for the review of the 10 river basin management plans covering all of England and Wales which were published in 2009.
Those who are interested in responding to the area of consultation which covers rivers in North East Hertfordshire should direct their attention to the Working Together consultation document for the Thames river basin district. Within the Thames river basin there are many important chalk rivers and this consultation covers these streams too. The new river basin management plans are due to last until 2021. A t the end of the Consultation, the Environment Agency will publish a response report scheduled to be issued by March 2013.
Commenting on the Consultation, MP Oliver Heald said “I have campaigned for the preservation of Hertfordshire’s chalk streams both locally and within in Parliament for a very long time and with this consultation people have the chance to offer their views as to how we might maintain the chalk rivers and their natural fauna for the foreseeable future. I urge them to do so.”
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Notes to Editors
-For more information about the consultation please email Claire Quigley at claire.quigley@environment-agency.gov.uk
-A printed version of the consultation can be obtained from myles.thomas@environment-agency.gov.uk /01707 632315.