Snowdonia Green Key Strategy Statement – Consultation Draft: 

Para 2.9 of the Draft states:

• The aims and proposals suggested below are based on several pieces of research.  The Northern Snowdonia Study (1998) and subsidiary studies by Cynefin (1999) and Newidiem (2000) have established a series of recommendations for developing tourism that is both economically and environmentally sustainable and that is less dependant on the private motor car for traveling to and around Northern Snowdonia. (These reports are available for consultation). 

Para 5.1 of the Draft states:

• The potential economic impacts of implementing the whole scheme were considered in work undertaken by consultants in the Northern Snowdonia Study (1998) and the Newidiem Study (2000) (both studies are available for consultation).

Time is short. Where are these documents, which have been paid for from public funds, to be seen?

At the public consultation meeting in Bethesda (28/1/02) a request was made to make available to the public, in local public libraries, the two reports on which the economic aspects of the Snowdonia Green Key Draft Strategy are based. Electronic copies were also requested to be put on the web and left there for future reference. The chairman, Councillor Dafydd Iwan, would not give a direct yes or no answer.  He intimated that the reports were out of date, no longer relevant and people did not need to read them.

The Freedom to choose – Snowdonia group has put a copy of each report in the following locations where people may read the documents and draw their own conclusions about what they contain.

Ask to see these documents, they can be consulted but not borrowed

1. Northern Snowdonia Study: Developing Local Economic Opportunities through the Management of Visitor Traffic (1998) - ISBN 1897901747
2. Newidiem - Economic impact analysis of the Northern Snowdonia Study: Final report for the Snowdonia National Park Authority (2000)

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