Sgwrs Dyffryn Peris conversation

BRAWD MAWR? Large scale influences

One of the things that inspired this project was my experience of how organisations (including but not limited to governmental organisations) are very poor at working WITH people outside their organisations. This article by members of the Higher Ground network in the USA (that I support in a tiny way by being on the Board) is great at explaining how the relationship could be different, written from the perspective of communities that are dealing with flooding.

This is a list of the kinds of things that are - or maybe - coming to Dyffryn Peris from the outside, ideas, plans, requirements…

Partneriaeth yr Wyddfa - the Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) Partnership: “Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) is the most popular mountain in the UK, and the effect this has on people who work and live in the area is significant. The Yr Wyddfa Partnership have been working together to create a plan for the future of the mountain.” A review into parking and transport in the Yr Wyddfa and Ogwen areas has been commissioned from a consultancy - let’s hope they do a decent job of engaging people in the area.

Sustainable Farming and Our Land - Welsh Govt Consultation on post Brexit (closing date for comments 30.10.19)
Snowdonia Society response: “While we support the need for change, we also recognise the importance of getting this change, and the transition to it, right. The transition period must provide support whilst ensuring that a process of real change is established.”
Post Brexit farm subsidy plan: “Farm groups have welcomed the Welsh government's decision to delay the introduction of changes to agricultural support post-Brexit. The country's new funding scheme to replace EU farm subsidies will now be introduced after the next assembly election, which takes place in 2021.”

Natural Resources Wales - Area Statements : “The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 made it a duty for us to produce Area Statements.The new legislative framework, provides an opportunity to rethink the way our natural resources are managed and used. Area statements will help coordinate our work and the work of others, to build the resilience of our ecosystems and enhance the benefits they provide us. They will bring together data, information and ways of encouraging engagement to help us better understand the state and trends of natural resources in an area, the pressures on them and their benefits. They will set the priorities for each locality and will drive NRW’s work programmes locally whilst influence national policy and set priorities for funding streams. Area Statements require a new way of working. They rely on successful collaboration which means we in NRW can’t do this without our partners and stakeholders. We want to work with you to make Wales more sustainable, more biodiverse and ensure these and other benefits can continue for future generations. Each Area Statement is a live document, which will be updated regularly and improve year on year, as we continue to engage and gather new evidence.”

Welsh Government to create “National Forest” across Wales. £5m in 2020’s Budget, the National Forest will create areas of new woodland and help to restore and maintain some of Wales’ “unique and irreplaceable” ancient woodlands.A further £10m of Glastir Woodland creation and restoration funding will be available to increase tree planting across Wales.

LleCHI World Heritage Site bid: “Gwynedd Council is leading the bid in partnership with Cadw,  the National Museum of Wales, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, The National Trust, the Slate Wales Partnership and Snowdonia National Park Authority. The partners have formed a Steering Group and two sub-groups; one is responsible for planning, conservation and management, the other for economic development. Specialists in the fields of heritage, consultation and public relations have also been commissioned to work on specific tasks. The project is managed by a small group from Gwynedd Council’s Economic and Community Department and Cadw.”

The North Wales Growth Deal: “This paper discusses the creation of a growth deal for North Wales (The North Wales Growth Deal – NWGD). North Wales is primarily a rural region within the UK, without a core-city or large metropolitan centre. The paper examines how this urban dynamic, fostered around a pushing of the agglomerative growth model out of the city-region, is being transferred largely across rural space and place in terms of how growth is envisioned and how policy is implemented. It contributes to regional studies knowledge by raising the importance of the non-metropolitan city-regional alternatives in the context of the (academic and policy) city-regional debate.”

And from elsewhere

Farmers' Union of Wales wants rewilding project scrapped : Mynydd i’r Mor: The Summit to Sea project aims to increase biodiversity and restore ecosystems in 10,000 hectares of mid-Wales and almost 30,000 hectares of sea in Cardigan Bay. Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) said the project would make it impossible for farmers to continue to live in their communities.