LAKE DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY
- MURLEY MOSS OXENHOLME ROAD
LA9 7RL KENDAL, CUMBRIA
Phone: 01539 724555
Fax: 01539 740822
E-mail: Send messagewww.lakedistrict.gov.uk
Short profile:
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England, encouraging people to enjoy and understand its beauty and helping those who live and work here. The National Park has always relied on the people living and working in it. In more recent centuries people have visited here to relax, enjoy themselves and be inspired.
We work with different groups to balance their needs with those of the landscape. Sometimes this requires high-quality negotiating skills to overcome complex and challenging issues. Office opening hours: Monday to Thursday 9am - 5pm and Friday 9am - 4.45pm.
Detailed description:
National Parks are beautiful, spectacular and often dramatic expanses of relatively wild country. Each National Park has its own managing authority to conserve and enhance its natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage and to help people understand and enjoy its special qualities. National Parks are protected under legislation and the planning system to ensure conservation and enhancement of their special qualities not just for the present, but also for future generations of residents and visitors. Although the National Park Authorities may own some land, they do not own all the land within a National Park.
The Lake District National Park Authority owns approximately 3.9 per cent of the National Park. The rest is owned by such organisations as the National Trust, United Utilities, Forest Enterprise and other private landowners. This is very different to national parks overseas, particularly in the USA.
The Lake District National Park is one of a family of 15 National Parks. The others are: Brecon Beacons, the Cairngorms, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Loch Lomond and Trossachs, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, Pembrokeshire Coast, Snowdonia, South Downs, the Yorkshire Dales, the Broads and the New Forest.
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