Wales election issue guide 2016: Culture and sport
- Published
Parties listed alphabetically
Maintain free entry to museums for residents of Wales
Promote sporting participation at all levels and for all ages across Wales
Develop a Commonwealth Games bid with Wales as host nation for 2026 or 2030
Support the establishment of a football museum in Wrexham
Make St David's Day a public holiday
Retain free entry to museums
Abolish Cadw and devolve responsibility for its properties to local authorities
Seaside town regeneration programme
Support community arts organisations
Protected funding to safeguard rural theatres from local authority budget cuts
Support national museums and cultural bodies to develop their Wales-wide education services
Encourage growth of local arts associations
Introduce local listing to help protect buildings and spaces important to local identity
Introduce a "Right to Bid" to allow communities to secure assets important to local identity
Campaign to protect funding for S4C and review its remit
Allow trials of safe standing areas at football stadia in Wales
Increase investment in the arts by introducing a "challenge fund"
Determine the possibility of hosting an All-Wales Commonwealth Games in 2026
Create "Historic Wales", bringing together many of the commercial functions of the Welsh Historic Environment Service, Cadw and the National Museum of Wales
Create and A55 "culture corridor"
Create a 'Wales Cultural Endowment' to fund the arts
Re-establish the Wales Tourist Board and boost co-ordination of visitor information
Bid for the Tour de France and Commonwealth Games, and work with Cardiff Council on a European Capital of Culture bid
Protect the grant for the Arts Council of Wales and Wales Arts International
