This is my latest update on the overstay boats on the Thames - I am pleased action has been taken.
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I wrote a response to the Government's Planning Reforms.
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The problem of overstay boats moored illegally along our patch of the River Thames from Thames Ditton, through Molesey down to Walton has blighted residents’ enjoyment of the river for a long time. Local businesses and clubs using the river have also been affected.
Read MoreI have written to the Minister for Transport alongside fellow MPs asking for clarification of her position on a third runway at Heathrow:
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The Liberal Democrats have called for a new protected status for local rivers and marine protected areas, after shocking figures reveal that Thames Water dumped sewage 129 times in Esher and Walton in 2023.
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On Wednesday, Conservative MPs voted against a new law which would have seen water companies in court for sewage spills.
Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab, who has taken on two lucrative jobs since the start of this year, wasn’t in Parliament for the debate.
The vote in Parliament took place on the same day a BBC report found sewage had been illegally dumped in the UNESCO protected Lake Windermere in the Lake District.
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New figures released by the Environment Agency show that Thames Water discharged sewage into the River Mole a staggering 350 times in 2023. A quarter of these discharges occurred at just one site - at Esher - where the sewage outflow was in operation for three times as many hours as in 2022.
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Surrey Hills, an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, enjoyed by many local Elmbridge families, is at risk from being destroyed by fracking.
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It’s not often that an 85-page policy document gets a reaction like this: “this is pretty flippin' good - pragmatically realistic.” But that was what a senior leader of a major conservation charity told me after he’d read the Liberal Democrats’ new policy paper, “Tackling the Climate Emergency” -
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