§ In order to manage the parks effectively we need to know who our visitors are, what they want in the way of facilities, how successful they think we have been in managing the parks and what improvements they would like to see. We have therefore commissioned consultants to carry out surveys of visitor attitudes. The contract is based on a schedule of fixed charges, but the full cost will depend on the scope of the survey in the second and third years of the contract, but the cost will not exceed £ 180,000.