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[Brian]

The Broads support 6,300 jobs in the county and attract 7.1 million visitors a year, contributing £437m to the economy – a figure which is growing each year, making it the third biggest national park in the country after the Lake District and Pembrokeshire coast for visitor spending.

[LondonRascal]

Apart from the fact that the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads are not technically a National Park.

The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads was designated through its own Act of Parliament in 1988, but is normally regarded as a member of the family of National Parks. As well as the two statutory purposes of National Parks, the Broads has a third purpose: to protect the interests of navigation. The Broads is not bound by the Sandford Principle, but is subject to the same “duty of regard” to the National Parks only across all three of its purposes as laid out in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (as inserted by Section 97 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000).

[Happy Jax 3]

The Broads support 6,300 jobs in the county and attract 7.1 million visitors a year, contributing £437m to the economy – a figure which is growing each year, making it the third biggest national park in the country after the Lake District and Pembrokeshire coast for visitor spending.

National Park or not they are very impressive numbers.

[Guest]

Apart from the fact that the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads are not technically a National Park.

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The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads was designated through its own Act of Parliament in 1988, but is normally regarded as a member of the family of National Parks.

That much fought over point is somewhat diluted by the fact that the National Parks Authority now labels all of them as being "members of the National Parks family", as on their website at http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk/

It's good to hear their considerable contribution to the economy and jobs. Thank goodness the Public in general just regard the area as a "National Park", and the success may well be all the more because of that Internationally understood accolade.