{"id":11610,"date":"2016-01-28T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:35:35","slug":"difficult-times-for-welsh-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/difficult-times-for-welsh-national-parks","title":{"rendered":"Difficult times for Welsh National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Budget cuts to three Welsh national parks may lead to job losses and have impacts on the level of service.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11618\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11618\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11618\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Snowdonia National Park Photo credit: Ian Caroll \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11618\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Snowdonia National Park Photo credit: Ian Caroll \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/5306981929_554e5ca5f6_z-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Snowdonia National Park Photo credit: Ian Carol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Local jobs and tourism quality are threatened as Welsh national parks face important financial cuts due to government reduction to public spending.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh government has yet to confirm the budget but the three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breconbeacons.org\/\">Welsh National Parks, Brecon Beacons<\/a>, Pembrokeshire Coast, and Snowdonia have been warned that they would face a budget reduction of up to 5% in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>Emyr Williams, Chief Executive of Snowdonia National Park, says that this reduction is not the first one and that the park actually went over a 40% budget reduction over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The implications of such cuts are important and represent up to 423.000\u00a3 in the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eryri-npa.gov.uk\/home\">Snowdonia Nation<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eryri-npa.gov.uk\/home\">al Park<\/a>. Measures have to be taken in order to cope with the budget reduction and involve the redundancy of more than 15 staff members from the three Welsh National Parks.<\/p>\n<p>Making people redundant is necessary to accommodate the new budget, however it is not enough to cope with the extent of the cut. So other ways have to be found and include solutions such as increasing the incomes of the parks through car parks, visitor centres and study centres.<\/p>\n<p>One key issue with these changes is that visitors might also be impacted by the changes. Williams says: \u201cNow we\u2019re entering to the phase of having to reduce the level of service we provide. So we\u2019re looking at aspects such as less footpath work, less information centre, less biodiversity work, less restoration of traditional farm buildings, and less archaeological work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This decrease in level of service will not affect Snowdonia only and the other two parks are also facing difficult decisions. Brecon Beacons National Park Authority Chief Executive, John Cook, says: \u201cWe believe that the potential for achieving these cuts through efficiency savings has been exhausted. Whilst there is always the opportunity to achieve further minor savings through efficiency gains we have reached a point where service level cuts have to be introduced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reasons behind this financial cut are unclear. Williams says: \u201cIt\u2019s up to the Welsh government to decide its priorities and its priorities are things like education, social services and health. So we seem to be not in the priority area for the Welsh government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11611\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11611\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-668x1024.png\" alt=\"Infographic_National_Parks_Wales\" width=\"668\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-768x1178.png 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-500x767.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11611\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-668x1024.png\" alt=\"Infographic_National_Parks_Wales\" width=\"668\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-768x1178.png 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales-500x767.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Infographic_National_Parks_Wales.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget cuts to Welsh national parks may lead job losses and impacts on service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":11618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture","category-global-city","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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