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Last week, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) published their proposed objectives for their Management Plan 2025-2030, and they are now available for public consultation.
There are 40 specific objectives listed, mostly too broad-reaching to call out individual activities such as caving.
The last time there was a Management Plan consultation, we were able to mobilise a significant number of northern cavers to feed back their thoughts. We know that getting a specific action item into the management plan related to caving is unlikely. However, the sheer number of caver responses did not go unnoticed, and did achieve positive recognition and mention of caving in the final plan document - a good result!
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk
Note: There is one survey for individuals, and one for organisations.
If you're wanting some ideas for the kinds of things you might consider feeding back, see our full article below. We don't want hundreds of cavers just to submit a copy-paste version of these, but hopefully this should provide some ideas for you to personalise your own response to help ensure that caving achieves some recognition in future versions of the Management Plan.
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There are 40 specific objectives listed, mostly too broad-reaching to call out individual activities such as caving.
The last time there was a Management Plan consultation, we were able to mobilise a significant number of northern cavers to feed back their thoughts. We know that getting a specific action item into the management plan related to caving is unlikely. However, the sheer number of caver responses did not go unnoticed, and did achieve positive recognition and mention of caving in the final plan document - a good result!

The new Management Plan 2025-2030 - Yorkshire Dales National Park
National Park Authorities are under a statutory duty to review National Park Management Plans at intervals of not more than 5 years. The aim of the Yorkshire Dales National Park […]
Note: There is one survey for individuals, and one for organisations.
If you're wanting some ideas for the kinds of things you might consider feeding back, see our full article below. We don't want hundreds of cavers just to submit a copy-paste version of these, but hopefully this should provide some ideas for you to personalise your own response to help ensure that caving achieves some recognition in future versions of the Management Plan.

Yorkshire Dales Management Plan
Your response to the recent Yorkshire Dales Management Plan objectives for 2025-2030 could help us keep caving on the table for future discussions.
