The petition of the residents of the United Kingdom
Declares that residents are prevented from safely swimming in the sea and enjoying the beach environment, around Bexhill and Hastings, due to recent and ongoing sewage spillages from Southern Water after heavy rain; further notes that these spillages create a risk to human health; notes that the under the Government’s Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction plan water companies will have to improve all storm overflows spilling into or near every designated bathing water and improve 75% of overflows spilling into high priority nature sites by 2035.
The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urge the Government to bring forward overflow spilling targets from the Government’s Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction Plan and take further action to stop the spillages happening by the summer of 2023.
And the petitioners remain, etc.—[Presented by Sally-Ann Hart .]
[P002821]