Tele-Ski On The Tees

EDM number 663 in 1996-97, proposed by Frank Cook on 13/03/1997.

That this House notes with some concern the proposals currently under consideration by the Teeside Development Corporation to establish a Tele-Ski facility on the Holmes/Horseshoe bend of the River Tees at Egglescliffe; notes too that this section of the river is a beautiful pastoral stretch improving environmentally at a steady rate as predicted by the promoters of the Teeside Barrage Bill, the noble Lord Dormand of Easington, and the honourable Member for Stockton North; notes further that this progressive improvement comes under direct threat of reversal if such proposals are approved; registers anxiety that the range of wildlife attracted so recently to the new enhanced state of water in this location will be seriously disturbed and possibly driven from the site permanently; acknowledges the grave level of opposition among local residents of Thornaby and Preston as testified by two substantial petitions and several hundred signed forms of objection gathered by concerned environmentalists; registers amazement that the sitting Member for Stockton South should go on record, as he has done, claiming that the adoption of these proposals will increase property values in the immediate vicinity; and in view of the foregoing calls upon the Secretary of State for the Environment to instruct the Teeside Development Corporation to refuse consent for this scheme at the earliest appropriate date.

This motion has been signed by a total of 10 MPs.