How to Support the Glyndŵr National Park Proposal
Published: 14 October 2025
Plans for a new National Park in North East Wales are one step closer to completion, but Campaign for National Parks are urging the public to engage in the consultation to learn more about the boundary and help turn the Glyndŵr National Park proposal into reality.
Natural Resources Wales’s final round of consultation is open until Monday 8th December via their online consultation page. It offers the public across Wales the opportunity to explore the proposed boundary, which now reincludes the vitally important Gronant and Talacre Dunes.
What has changed
Since the last round of public consultation in 2024 a whole series of assessments have been produced on nature, the economy, equality, Welsh language and planning. These can all be reviewed as part of the consultation. Feedback was also taken from the public on the proposed boundary, with a number of changes made to reflect comments received through this process. These changes are summarised below:
- The Gronant and Talacre Dunes area have been reinstated.
- The Boundary has been refined to better capture a coherent area of natural beauty focusing on the uplands, intersecting valleys and coastal edge.
- A large section within Powys has been removed.
The Welsh Government has also clarified that if a new National Park is established, it is committed to properly funding it without financially disadvantaging the existing National Parks or the constituent Local Authorities.
What do I need to know?
Natural Resources have provided a huge amount of helpful resources on their online consultation page, and at Campaign for National Parks we have also created a simple list of frequently asked questions to cut through some of the misinformation around the new National Park and how it might operate.
After this round of consultation, it will be up to Welsh Government to decide whether to designate the National Park based on the evidence presented and the support shown for the proposals. There will then be a period in which a new National Park Authority would be set up and decisions made about the ambitions for the area and how these could be achieved through a management plan. We see this as a huge opportunity to deliver an exemplar new National Park for the UK, improving opportunities for nature and local communities in the area.
We believe that the new National Park will:
- Conserve and protect important natural and cultural heritage
- Protect and enhance natural assets
- Stimulate the local economy
- Create places of quiet enjoyment and tranquillity
- Boost and encourage responsible access to the countryside
Read our Value of a new National Park report for more information.
How you can help – Responding to the consultation
If you would like to express your support for the new National Park it is really easy to do so and will take less than 5 minutes once you have taken a look at the consultation material online via their consultation page.
STEP ONE: Respond via the online consultation form. After you fill in some basic information, there is one main multiple choice question to answer:
Question 4:
I/We support the current proposal for a new National Park
I/We support the principle of a National Park but suggest a boundary change (please provide details below)
I/We support the principle of a National Park subject to certain points being appropriately addressed or clarified
I/We object to the proposal for a new National Park
I/We remain undecided / don’t know
STEP TWO: Share your response with friends and family and encourage them to also express their opinion by the deadline of Monday 8th October