Rejected petition Open up more canal routes and salvage old ones!

our country is a beautiful place and we have a responsibility to preserve and maintain our green and pleasant land.

If we were to Scrape the rivers and canals out and make the river beds deeper you will find that we wouldn’t need to spend so much on river defences?!

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Improve the public pathways surrounding the canals and rivers i.e cycle paths and footpaths!

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about restoring canals are a matter for the Canals and Rivers Trust, not the UK Government or Parliament.

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Date submitted 26 November 2024
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