ENDON HIGH SCHOOL CLIMATE COPS

That this House congratulates Endon High School on reaching the final round of the N-Power Climate Cops SOS competition at a time when local community responses to the challenges of climate change are increasingly necessary; fully supports Endon High School's goal of establishing a cycle path along the Stoke-on-Trent to Endon stretch of the disused railway line that is safe for pedestrians and which would link to the Sustrans national cycle network; notes that the day on which Endon High School was finalising its campaign, an announcement was made that the disused railway track has been purchased by Moorlands and City Railways Ltd with a view to reopening the railway line; and urges all local and national partners including Network Rail, Staffordshire County Council, Advantage West Midlands, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, Sustrans, North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership, and the North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce urgently to back Endon High School by ensuring a feasibility study is jointly undertaken into a cycle and pedestrian track to co-exist with the planned railway line in the interests of sustainable tourism in North Staffordshire.