Plans for new National Park "likely to be shelved" says report

Plans for a new national park in north Wales - including Llangollen - are likely to be shelved after a government minister told the Senedd he did not want to set it up.

* For the full story on the BBC, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c59vze7vy2vlo 

* Rose O’Neill, Chief Executive of Campaign for National Parks said: “Welsh Government has failed to show the leadership required to put National Parks at the heart of nature, the climate and their rural resilience agenda with today’s decision. 

"The failure to back a public local inquiry at this time is a bitterly disappointing retreat from Wales’s National Park ambitions which demonstrates a telling lack of faith in the power and potential of Welsh National Parks from the new Government."