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Sept 2020
Yorkshire Dales National Park enjoys £350,000 post-lockdown boom
The re-opening of The Yorkshire Dales National Park when lockdown restrictions eased has had an 'extremely positive' effect on finances, according to the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, which will discuss the figures next week.
Yorkshire Dales, National Park.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has forecasted an extra £350,000 income for the year due to visitors flocking back after lockdown restrictions eased.
A financial progress report for the period from 1 April to 31 August said the authority revised its budget in May to assume a number of services would be seriously diminished or stopped altogether.
But the situation changed when car parks and visitor centres reopened later that month and visitors flooded to the national park to walk and enjoy the outdoors.
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The report said this had an 'extremely positive' effect on finances and there was now 'no emerging risk of a financial shortfall'.
The report, which will be considered by the authority's finance and resource committee next week, also revealed expenditure is £253,000 less than forecast.
It adds:
"Although the current projection is considerably more positive than had been allowed for in the revised budget, it does assume that the second half of 2020/21 will be unaffected by covid, both in terms of income (especially from visitors and planning applications) and expenditure on programmes."
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