Petition The public right of navigation on all rivers in the England and Wales

I would like parliment to allow public use of rivers and canals in England and Wales for small manually propelled vessels with a crew of up to 3 persons.

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In England and Wales there is less than 4% of the 41,000 miles (68,000km) of rivers have public access.

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

31 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 31 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
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