The Conservative Party

The Conservative Party set out the following policies in their 2015 general election manifesto:

Policies affecting walking and access to nature: plans on forests, green spaces and planning. 

• Make it easier to access our beautiful landscapes, by providing free maps of all open-access green space
• Ensure that our public forests and woodland are kept in trust for the nation and plant another 11 million trees.
• Launch a programme of ‘pocket parks’, protect the Green Belt, and maintain national protections for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Parks, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and other environmental designations
• The Natural Capital Committee will be extended to at least the end of the next Parliament.

Public health policies affecting walking: increasing physical activity to improve physical health as well as mental health.

• Invest in participation and physical activity, recognising sport’s benefits to health and to preventing diabetes
• Invest more in primary care, to help prevent health problems before they start
• Increase funding for mental health care
• Continue to integrate the health and social care systems.

Policies affecting walking and transport: plans for walking, cycling and HS2.

• Create more cycle routes and increase number of journeys taken by bicycle. .
• Reduce number of cyclists and other road users killed.
• Continue with HS2: the party commits to replace biodiversity which is lost during the construction of HS2.

You can access the full Conservative Party manifesto here: http://goo.gl/Lu9MDj