Part of 2. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 19 July 2017.
I look forward to scrutinising in this Chamber ‘Our Valleys, Our Future’, because we certainly need a transformative vision for the Valleys. I’m not sure the Valleys landscape park would constitute a hub, but it would be a transformative vision, potentially. We’ve got to start to recognise the real potential of this resource. The Valleys were once amongst Britain’s most beautiful spots, and travellers from all over the UK would come and paint pictures and write poetry about this wonderful landscape. They should come again, and more of them. I commend the sort of vision that your colleague Huw Irranca-Davies has for a Valleys forest, for instance. There is great potential there, and now we need to match it with vision.