North East Wales National Park Project: Evaluation and Candidate Areas

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is looking to appoint a suitably skilled and experienced consultant to:

Stage 1

i) Detailed evaluation of Natural Beauty and Recreation

• Identify Evaluation Areas as sub-divisions of the Area of Search to provide a more manageable scale for evaluation of the area in question.
• Evaluate each Evaluation Area for natural beauty in accordance with NRW’s procedural guidance on assessing land for designation and the natural beauty factors and criteria set out in the guidance.
• Evaluate each Evaluation Area as to whether it affords sufficient opportunities for outdoor recreation according to the criteria set out in the procedural guidance.
• Identify areas that appear likely to be able to meet the natural beauty and outdoor recreation criteria, termed Candidate Areas.

ii) Desirability to designate

• Contribute to judgement as to whether it is especially desirable to designate - for the National Park purposes to apply to the area.

iii) Draft designation boundary

• Define a boundary for the whole area in detail in accordance with explicit boundary-setting considerations.

Stage 2

iv) Public consultation support and report

• Provide technical support to the public consultation on the proposed area for a potential National Park.
• Provide technical consultation report and recommend any changes to the Draft boundary.

Stage 3

v) Public inquiry support

• Provide technical support to any potential public inquiry on a proposed National Park.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is intending to award a fixed term, three stage contract of approximately three years in total, commencing in April 2024. Stage 1 will be for a period of 4 months from April 2024. Stage 2 for a period of 6 months from September 2024 and Stage 3 for a period of 1 year from April 2026.

Please note that Stage 2 and 3 are not guaranteed and are approximate and subject to timescale changes.

To register your initial interest in this opportunity please email naomi.hammond@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

Please note this PIN is not a call for competition