Our Consultation and Engagement Hub

Welcome to Natural Resources Wales’ online consultation and engagement hub.

Here you can find and take part in our consultations to have your say on the issues that matter to you.

There are also information pages on some of the projects we are working on.

You can use this site to view and respond to our open consultations and to view recently closed activities. A few of our consultations and information pages are listed below, or you can search for a consultation or project by keyword or interest.

We also have an ideas hub where we facilitate open discussions on some important things we're working on.

Our long-term aim is that this site will be fully bi-lingual

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If you're looking for a closed consultation that isn't listed, please visit our website

Closed consultations

Open Consultations

  • Information on felling operations at Chepstow Park

    Click here to view this page in Welsh Felling operations are due to begin shortly at Chepstow park, to remove approximately 1 ha of larch trees which are infected with Phytophthora ramorum, (more commonly known as larch disease) Once operations commence, the work...

    Yn cau 28 Tachwedd 2024

  • Update on Natural Resources Wales' visitor centres

    Read this page in Welsh / Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg Retail and catering provision at three visitor centres managed by Natural Resources Wales will remain open until March 31, 2025, and will then close. After closure we will launch a public exercise to look for partners who may...

    Yn cau 28 Tachwedd 2024

  • Notice of Application for Skewen Flood Alleviation Scheme

    Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 Notice of Application for Skewen Flood Alleviation Scheme Notice is hereby given that Neath Port Talbot Council has applied to Natural Resources Wales (“NRW”) for a marine licence to carry out a regulated activity under the Marine and...

    Yn cau 30 Tachwedd 2024

  • Wales's New National Park Proposal - Public Consultation 2024

    Visit the Cynnig Parc Cenedlaethol Newydd Cymru - Ymghynghoriad Cyhoeddus 2024 page to view this page in Welsh. The public consultation period will run from Monday 7 October until 23:59 on Monday 16 December 2024. For more information on the drop-in or online public consultation events,...

    Yn cau 16 Rhagfyr 2024

  • Wales’s New National Park Proposal

    Last updated on Monday 7 October 2024. The 10-week public consultation period on the proposal for a new National Park in Wales running from the 7 October to the 16 December 2024 has begun. Head over to Wales's New National Park Proposal - Public Consultation 2024 page to find...

    Yn cau 16 Rhagfyr 2024

Closed Consultations

  • Notice of Application for A494 River Dee Bridge Over-slabbing

    Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 - Notice of Application for A494 River Dee Bridge Over-slabbing Notice is hereby given that Jones Bros Civil Engineering has applied to Natural Resources Wales (“NRW”) for a marine licence to carry out a regulated activity under the Marine...

    Ar gau 20 Tachwedd 2024

  • Notice of Application for Saint Ishmaels groynes removal and Ferryside sea defence maintenance

    Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 - Notice of Application for Saint Ishmaels groynes removal and Ferryside sea defence maintenance Notice is hereby given that Dyer & Butler Ltd has applied to Natural Resources Wales (“NRW”) for a marine licence to carry out a...

    Ar gau 15 Tachwedd 2024

  • Notice of Application for Living Sea Walls Installation, Menai Strait

    Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 - Notice of Application for Living Sea Walls Installation, Menai Strait Notice is hereby given that North Wales Rivers Trust has applied to Natural Resources Wales (“NRW”) for a marine licence to carry out a regulated activity...

    Ar gau 13 Tachwedd 2024

  • Consultation on three new and two amended standard rules permits

    We are able to make standard rule environmental permits to reduce the administrative burden on business while maintaining environmental standards. They are based on sets of standard rules that we can apply widely across Wales providing the location criteria and conditions laid out in each can be...

    Ar gau 1 Tachwedd 2024

  • Our Corporate Plan to 2030 - Our draft impacts and strategic indicators

    The development of our vision, mission, and well-being objectives in our Corporate plan to 2030, Nature and people thriving together , set out how NRW will play our part in the Team Wales approach, to tackling the nature, climate, and pollution emergencies. To complement the publication...

    Ar gau 31 Hydref 2024

We Asked, You Said, We Did

  • Crychan Forest Resource Plan

    Natural Resources Wales is responsible for the sustainable management of the publicly owned woodlands and forests of Wales. They are managed for the benefit and well-being of the people who visit them and depend on them for their livelihood. This responsibility includes improving their biodiversity...

    Ar gau 20 Mai 2021

  • Enforcement and Prosecution Policy

    Our policy on Enforcement and Prosecution was approved and published in March 2013. We recently established an internal expert group, including legal representatives, to run a review of this policy and the associated guidance. Our revised policy and guidance do not change our...

    Ar gau 27 Medi 2021

  • Lower Rhondda Forest Resource Plan Consultation

    Natural Resources Wales is responsible for the sustainable management of the publicly owned woodlands and forests of Wales. They are managed for the benefit and well-being of the people who visit them and depend on them for their livelihood. This responsibility includes improving their biodiversity...

    Ar gau 8 Ebrill 2022

  • Lower Taff Valley Forest Resource Plan Consultation

    Natural Resources Wales is responsible for the sustainable management of the publicly owned woodlands and forests of Wales. They are managed for the benefit and well-being of the people who visit them and depend on them for their livelihood. This responsibility includes improving their biodiversity...

    Ar gau 14 Tachwedd 2022

  • Welshpool Forest Resource Plan

    Natural Resources Wales is responsible for the sustainable management of the publicly owned woodlands and forests of Wales. They are managed for the benefit and well-being of the people who visit them and depend on them for their livelihood. This responsibility includes improving their biodiversity...

    Ar gau 20 Tachwedd 2022