<font color="#FF0000">COASTAL ACCESS</font>

How much access should we have to our coastline?

I say: the more the merrier - within reason. There are new plans to extend the South West Coastal Path from Minehead right up as far as Brean Down. It is a complicated mapping excercise. For starters there's the small matter of Hinkley Point nuclear power station. The precise route will no doubt provide heated debate for the people from Natural England who have responsibility for making proposals and then consulting YOU. Those consultations will probably not begin in earnest until next year, but forwarned is forearmed.

Here is where to get hold of the coastal access team:

Coastal Access Delivery Team ( Somerset)
Natural England
Temple Quay House
2 The Square
Bristol BS1 6EB

Telephone: 0300 060 2050

you can also make contact by email:

SomersetCoastalAccess@naturalengland.org.uk

We already have a chunk of the longest and loveliest national trail in this constituency in the SouthWest Coastal path. If you have never walked it - even a small part of it - then you should be ashamed of yourself. It took great patience and diplomacy to create it and keep it spick, span and popular. In fact popularity is hardly a problem. We welcome walkers. And the SouthWest Coastal Path Association - that does so much of the hard work - takes enormous pride in encouraging people.Join us at the Minehead Marker sculpture and share the views!

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