What are your views?

This feedback form is divided into three sections. Please complete as much of the questionnaire as you feel appropriate.

Your views will help inform the way forward and feed into the Area Statement being produced for the Dyfi to guide appropriate protection, management and use of the area’s natural resources.

If you supply your contact details (see back page), you will receive updates in the futureand an invitation to a workshop on 17 October.

The more specific you can be, the more your views will help inform the way forward.

Send your completed questionnaires to s or by post to Patrick Green, Natural Resources Wales, Powells Place,Powells Lane,Welshpool. SY21 7JY.

1. ABOUT YOUR INTEREST AND WHERE YOU ARE FROM

1.1 What particular interest(s) or concern(s) prompted you to complete this questionnaire?

1.2 What is your relationship to the Dyfi area?

Please tick all boxes that apply to you:

☐ I live/work within the Dyfi trial area

☐ I live/work within a mile or two of the Dyfi trial area

☐ I have a holiday home here

☐ I’m a visitor

☐ I have a professional/work interest

  • Please list (e.g. researcher, ecologist, LA officer)
    ______

☐ Other

  • Please give details

______

2. ABOUT YOUR VIEWS ON NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2.1 How concerned are you about protecting, managing and using our natural resources properly?

☐ Not concerned ☐Mildly concerned☐ Very concerned

2.2 How supportive are you of something being done to reduce risks address issues & concerns and capitalise on opportunities?

☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐

2.3 What [if anything] can be done, by NRW or others, to communicate better, what Natural Resource Management is, and how it can make a real difference to Wales’ sustainable development?

Please give us your views on issues you’d like to see addressed and what opportunities you think there are in the Dyfi area.

You may like to comment on:

  • What you would like to see as an outcome of Natural Resource Management,
  • If possible, give details of a location or topic where you think there is an issue and/or an opportunity.
  • You may also like to suggest what could be done?

You can add issues and ideas to as many or as few of the boxes below as you like.

Section / Comment (please explain WHY!)
1 The Upland areas
2 Middle catchment
3 Valley floor and estuary
4 The coastal area and beaches
5 In relation toculture, heritage, landscape,
6 In relation to access, recreation, tourism
7 In relation to
food, timber & fuel, fishing & shooting, mineral resources, renewable energy
8 In relation to
flood regulation (tidal & fluvial), water quality, erosion control, carbon storage
8 In relation to Geology & wildlife
9 Other?

3. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE KEPT INFORMED OR INVOLVED IN THE FUTURE?

Are you interested in:

a) Being kept informed? ☐Yes ☐No If yes, please indicate how:

☐ By email newsletter ☐ By paper newsletter ☐ By looking up on a website

☐ Through local media (please name which) ______

☐ Another way (please say how): ______

b) Being involved?☐Yes ☐No If yes, please indicate how:

☐ I’d like to give views in the future

☐ I’d like to attend a workshop which explores in more detail some of the issues I and other local people and stakeholders highlight

☐ Another way (please say how): ______

Your contact details (so we can keep you informed)

If you want to be kept informed or involved in the future, please provide your contact details below and confirm that you are happy for us to hold this information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

☐I am happy for my details to be kept on the database by Natural Resources Wales in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and understand that these will not be passed on to any other organisation

Name______

Organisation (if any)______

☐ I would like to receive a report from the workshop/exhibition

☐ I would like to be kept informed as indicated above on the form

Address:______

______

Email:______

Thank you very much!

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