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In 2017, Highways England announced that they wanted to build a dual carriageway right through the middle of Rimrose Valley, a country park in Sefton near Liverpool. The only green space in a heavily populated and urbanised area. The purpose of this dual carriageway? To increase the capacity of the nearby Port of Liverpool, owned by Peel Ports. A privately owned organisation based in the Isle of Man. The WE SAID NO podcast tells the story of how the campaign to fight the road and the damage to both the environment and to public health came to be. And how its actions brought a community together in defiance of the Government's plans.

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Sefton Air Pollution. Take a deep breath.

May 16, 2024 • Save Rimrose Valley • Season 1 • Episode 13

In this special edition of our podcast series we are revisiting the topic of air pollution. We last covered this in 2021 and heard about just some of the impacts the poor air quality in our part of Sefton has on people’s lives.

In this episode, we delve even deeper into the subject. Our charity, Rimrose Valley Friends, recently secured funding to raise awareness of this issue from Community Foundation for Merseyside’s “Breathe Better Air Fund”. As part of our “Let’s put the brakes on pollution” project we’ll be learning not just about the issues we experience today, but crucially, what we as individuals can do about it.

Here are some links for further information of some of the subjects covered in this episode.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environmental-principles-policy-statement/environmental-principles-policy-statement#:~:text=The%20polluter%20pays%20principle,damage%2C%20or%20the%20wider%20community.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/explainers/what-is-the-polluter-pays-principle/

https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/plastic-problem/regulations/polluter-pays-principle/

https://neweconomics.org/2022/12/making-polluters-pay