The dispute is planning to expand the Yorkshire Dales National Park, part of Lancashire should be submitted to the ministers, although the government agency that is responsible to more than £ 40m gap.
Natural England has decided to go ahead with the controversial extension of the national park boundaries and detailed plans of the proposals have already been approved.
The plans have provoked controversy in the middle fear Yorkshire Dales could be re-branded to answer for centuries in the northwest, rekindled old rivalries of the Wars of the Roses.
Proposals must be rubber stamped in September, before being sent to Westminster to win the approval of the Minister of the Environment Caroline Spelman.
Natural England is, however, by making cuts in its budget to compensate for reduced public funding and must comply with £ 44.2mi savings over the next four years.
organization’s annual budget of £ 205 is reduced to £ 194m in the next fiscal year, and there is a possibility of extending the proposed limits could go before a public inquiry expensive.
North Yorkshire County Council, Richmondshire District Council and Craven District Council are local authorities, who have opposed the plans.
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has supported the proposed scheme, and over two thirds of the 1,300 comments were received from Natural England also supported the idea.
But Richmondshire District Council leader Fleur Butler said: “It’s ridiculous to even consider extending the boundaries of national park, for no other reason than its put things on a map of a bureaucrat.
“It ‘s ridiculous when everyone is forced to make cuts in our budgets, trying to break the country area, which is not in danger.
“It is not necessary and certainly not wanted, and does not fit the idea of the Yorkshire Dales National Park as part of Yorkshire.”
Natural England has announced the end of 2009 to include a number of new beauty spots in Cumbria and Lancashire, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Although already includes most of Cumbria, this is the first time a small part of Lancashire, called Leck Fells east of Kirkby Lonsdale, is included.
Other areas will include integrated northern Howgill Fells Mallerstang and hair Fell Firbank Fell, Orton Fells and the Lower Valley of the Moon.
Natural England Board of Directors has approved the proposed boundary changes, which have also been observed in the Lake District National Park will continue.
Yorkshire Dales National Park will increase by almost a quarter the size of 680 square miles 842 km square.
Another public hearing is to launch before the end of April, Natural England and adopt the final version of the present Government in the autumn.
Project director David Vose confirmed that £ 150,000 has been spent to date, including a major consultation last year.
He stressed that no final decision on the presentation of the government’s plans would take place before the meeting Natural England next board meeting in September,
But Mr. Vose admitted that the scheme was so vast that it was likely to ministerial approval must be sought.
He added: “From our perspective, most of the project cost has already been used.
“If we stopped the process today, there would be a significant waste of money.”
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