Friends of the Lake District welcomes the Government’s independent review of England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) launched on 20th October.  The review is led by Julian Glover supported by an experienced advisory group.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make your views known on the future of our National Parks and AONBs and how they are run.  We will be submitting a response to the review but we would urge individual members to feed in their own comments directly. As part of the response process, there is an option for you to submit an image illustrating what is special to you about a National Park or AONB. We believe that this provides an exciting opportunity for us all to demonstrate what these landscapes mean to us. 

With a deadline for submissions on 18 December, the review will report next year, 70 years after the landmark National Parks Act 1949 that established National Parks in England and it will consider all aspects of England’s National Parks and AONB's. 

We've provided more information at this link

Background information about the review together with a link to the consultation can be found here: https://www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk/Pages/Site/glover-landscape-review-welcome/Category/landscape-review

We will provide an update and some initial thoughts once we have considered the review in more detail.