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NTUK responds to APPG Call for Evidence

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August 22, 2025

Following registration in June 2025, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Outdoor Recreation and Access to Nature put out it's first call for evidence in July, asking for ideas for new legislation, and/ or policy proposals which would:

  1. Enable more people to make use of existing access opportunities (including open access and public rights of way).
  2. Improve access to landscapes (woodlands, riversides, water bodies, downland) and the safeguards needed for the environment and land management.
  3. Enable more people to undertake a broader range of responsible outdoor activities and the safeguards needed for the environment and land management.
  4. Ensure green and blue spaces are more evenly distributed and better connected.
  5. Ensure access to nature is better used to support health and wellbeing outcomes.
  6. Increase access to sites of public or historic interest
  7. Enable more people, particularly children, young people and underrepresented groups, to regularly experience and engage with green and blue spaces.

Many thanks to all the NTUK members who fed in to our response, which you can download and read using the link below.

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