Tories announce new National Park for Britain – this is the place may or not it’s created

The search to create a brand new National Park will get underway early subsequent yr – with the Cotswolds, Chilterns, Cornwall and Dorset tipped as potential candidates.

The Tories’ 2019 election-winning manifesto pledged to create “new national parks” however, with a poll lower than 14 months away, the Government has solely simply launched the competitors for another. Environment Secretary Steve Barclay, who was demoted from Health Secretary on this month’s Cabinet reshuffle, has commissioned Natural England to start figuring out an space which might be thought of for designation as the following National Park – the eleventh in England and sixteenth in Britain. Mr Barclay, who will make a remaining choice, instructed GB News: “Having an additional National Park and having more community forests, and making them more accessible … is really important.”

Potential candidates for the honour embrace Dorset, with its Jurassic Coast; Cornwall, with its picturesque fishing villages and bleak moorlands; the Cotswolds, with its chocolate field villages and farmland; and the Chilterns, the countryside northwest of London the place work is underway on the controversial HS2 high-speed railway. The areas are dominated by the Conservative MPs.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs stated: “The search for a new National Park – a manifesto commitment – will begin in the new year. This will be focused on looking for England’s most beautiful nature spots, alongside the area’s ability to connect people with nature.”

Labour accused the Conservatives of overseeing the “destruction” of the British countryside. Shadow Environment Secretary Steve Reed claimed: “Under their watch, the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world and waterways face the highest levels of illegal sewage discharges in our history.” Prospect trade union general secretary Mike Clancy also took issue with the Government’s nature announcement. “Bold-sounding initiatives cannot cover the true state of our rivers, shorelines and pure landscapes,” he said.

The current existing National Parks are:

1. Snowdonia

2. Northumberland

3. The Broads

4. Pembrokeshire

5. New Forest

6. Brecon Beacons

7. South Downs

8. North York Moors

9. Yorkshire Dales

10. Exmoor

11. Dartmoor

12. Peak District

13. Lake District

14. Loch Lomond and the Trossachs

15. Cairngorms