The Welsh administration’s independent review of the governance of the country’s designated landscapes (ie National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) will include the future planning regime for the parks, minister for natural resources Carl Sargeant has confirmed.
That clarification came as Sargeant, who is also planning minister, named Professor Terry Marsden, Director of Cardiff University’s Sustainable Places Research Institute, as the chair of the independent panel which will carry out the two-stage review. The other panel members will be John Lloyd Jones and Dr Ruth Williams.
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