HC Deb 11 November 1980 vol 992 cc171-2W
Mr. Ennals

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those key sites of special scientific interest in the Nature Conservancy Council's "A Nature Conservation Review" which have been seriously damaged or destroyed due to changes in agricultural or forestry practice; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Monro

Out of 735 key sites, four are known to have been destroyed and 53 seriously damaged due to changes in agriculture and forestry. These are as follows:

Destroyed

  • Wintringham Marsh, N. Yorks;
  • Clehonger Meadow, Hereford and Worcester;
  • Kilquockadale Flow, Dumfries and Galloway Southern Parphe, Highland.

Seriously Damaged

  • Starveall Down and Stony Hill, Wilts;
  • Homington, Oddstock and Coombe Bisset Downs, Wilts;
  • Coombe Hill Canal, Glos;
  • Sibson-Castor Meadows, Cambs;
  • Carn Gafallt Meadows, Powys;
  • Lakenheath Warren, Eriswell High and Low Warren, Suffolk;
  • Hartland Moor and Arne Heaths, Dorset;
  • The Swale (Isle of Sheppey), Kent;
  • The Wash Flats and Marshes, Lincolnshire;
  • Leigh Marsh, Essex;
  • Lindisfarne-Ross Links—Budle Bay, Northumberland;
  • Romney Marsh, Kent;
  • Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere, Norfolk;
  • Upton Broad, Norfolk;
  • Calthorpe Broad, Norfolk;
  • River Great Eau, Lincolnshire;
  • Wormley Wood—Hoddesdon Park Wood, Hertfordshire;
  • Waterperry Wood, Oxfordshire;
  • Bedford Purlieus Group, Cambridgeshire;
  • Bardney Forest (Lincs, Limewoods);
  • Foxley Wood, Norfolk;
  • King's and Baker's Wood, Bedfordshire;
  • Coed Maes Yr Helmau, Gwynedd;
  • Whitbarrow and Witherslack Woods, Cumbria;
  • Eaves Wood, Lancashire;
  • Roudsea Wood, Cumbria;
  • Loch Sunart Woodlands (Glen Cripesdale), Strathclyde;
  • Conistone Old Pasture and Bastow Wood, N. Yorkshire;
  • Alkham Valley Woods, Kent;
  • Finglandrigg Woods, Cumbria;
  • Orton Moss, Cumbria;
  • Coille Ardura, Strathclyde;
  • Upper Teesdale, Durham;
  • Simonside Hills, Northumberland;
  • Kielderhead Moors, Northumberland/Borders;
  • Cairnsmore of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway;
  • Merrick—Kells, Dumfries and Galloway;
  • Keen of Hamar, Shetland;
  • New Forest Valley Mires (Denny Bog), Hampshire;
  • Sandringham Warren (Dersingham Bog), Norfolk;
  • Cumwhitton Moss, Cumbria;
  • Moorthwaite Moss, Cumbria;
  • Biglands Bog, Cumbria;
  • Cors Geirch, Gwynedd;
  • Cors Erddreiniog, Gwynedd;
  • Bure Marshes, Norfolk;
  • Surlingham Marshes, Norfolk;
  • Glasson Moss, Cumbria;
  • Hummel Knowe Moss, Cumbria/Northumberland;
  • Coom Ring Moss and Seletia Moss, Cumbria/Northumberland;
  • Blar Na Caillich Buidhe, Highland;
  • Forsinard-badanlock Flows, Highland;
  • A'Mhoine, Highland;

It is intended to include future powers to protect selected sites of the greatest national and international importance in the proposed Wildlife and Countryside Bill.