25th June 2025
Letter to Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Mairi Gougeon MSP, following the announcement on 29th May that the Scottish Government will not pursue the proposal to designate Galloway and Ayrshire as a National Park.
LINK members are concerned by the process through which a decision was made regarding the proposed National Park and believe that Part 3 of the Natural Environment Bill offers a valuable opportunity to strengthen the current statutory process for proposing and designating National Parks. This letter includes amendments that LINK members suggest would make the proposal and scrutiny of new National Parks more effective and constructive.