Leading The Way – Protected Landscapes and Rural Recovery
Introduction National Parks and our other protected landscapes have built up expertise over the years in healthy outdoor recreation and…
SCNP submits proposals for National Planning Framework 4
SCNP has submitted a paper to the Scottish Government in response to its Call for Ideas for the forthcoming National…
Galloway socio-economic report published
SCNP and The Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland have released new research which clearly demonstrates that a Galloway…
Scottish Parliament votes for more National Parks
In a debate on 31 October to mark the centenary of the 1919 Forestry Act, Members of the Scottish Parliament…
Glover Review recommends more National Parks for England
The Final Report of the English Landscapes Review, published in September by the UK Department of Environment, Food & Rural…
Clear public support for Borders NP in response to Main Issues Report
Scottish Borders Council (SBC) recently consulted local residents on the main issues for its next Local Development Plan. This included…
GNPA presents It’s Our Time report to Environment Minister
On 30 April the Galloway National Park Association (GNPA) met Mairi Gougeon MSP, Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural…
SCNP Annual Conference & AGM
An important conference, on the theme of ‘GROWING THE FAMILY OF NATIONAL PARKS IN SCOTLAND‘ discussing the great progress being…
National Parks Campaign active at Holyrood
The Scottish Campaign for National Parks (SCNP) and the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (APRS) attended the Scottish…
SCNP Newsletter Spring 2016
Why does it take the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Affairs in England, Rory Stewart OBE MP,…