Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee
5 March 2026
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Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee House of Lords
00:03 - 03:18
Speaker 1
Welcome to this the thirteenth public meeting of the select committee on the Malvern Hills bill. Those who are present in the room are reminded that their mobile phones should be on silent, and please do not have conversations behind the witnesses. As far as fire cautions are concerned, we have a a system of two tone siren followed by tape messages which are broadcast. If evacuation is necessary, please follow the instructions of the clerk. And if anybody happens to be outside in the in the corridor, find the nearest security officer.
These proceedings are being broadcast, and a full transcript will be taken. If we need to deliberate, which I think is unlikely this morning, then the room will be cleared to allow us to conduct our deliberations in private. Before I call on you, miss Lin, to present your case, I think I should, deliver the reasons for the decision we took on on Tuesday to allow the more the more of an environmental protection group to, present its case. This is a local voluntary association which was founded in 2019. It has a constitution adopted on 09/04/2019 which states that its aims are to have concern for and protect the natural aspect of the Morven Hills and surrounding commons.
It operates through a committee and has a wider public membership of about 320 subscribers to its mailing list. It convenes public meetings as the need arises at which there are between one hundred and two hundred attendees. It has received donations amounting to about £20,000, most within the past two years, and mostly composed of small donations from local people. That indicates that it is supported more widely across the local area than the number of those who attend its meetings might suggest. The group made a formal decision to oppose a bill at a committee meeting on 12/11/2024 following months of engagement with what was then a proposed bill.
This included two public meetings held on May 11, which were attended by about 200 local residents. We were told that it was made clear that those attending them supported the MEPG in petitioning against the bill and that they relied on it to do so. We were referred to the Kings Cross Railways bill where the Camden cycling aign, which had just over 200 members, were not granted locker stand eye. But that was a body which, unlike the MEPG, did not have a formal written formal institution or rules. Also, as the promoter in that case pointed out, there were many other people in Camden than the 200 members of that body who rode bicycles.
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