§ Mr. Bodyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will give a list of the sites selected by the Nature Conservancy Council to be sites of special scientific interest which have been damaged or destroyed within the period of three months following the service of a notice under section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
§ Mr. WaldegraveI am advised by the Nature Conservancy Council that the following 11 proposed sites of special scientific interest were either damaged or destroyed during the three-month period following service of a notice under section 28(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act. In some cases the damage has been slight: in two cases—Gillet's meadow and Kingsthorpe scrub field — the NCC considers that the scientific interest of the whole site has been destroyed.
- Ripon Parks, North Yorkshire
- Jeffrye Bog, North Yorkshire
- Kingsthorpe Scrub Field, Northants
- Gillet's Meadow (Yardley Hastings), Northants
- Radmore Farm Marsh, Northants
- Black Mountains, Hereford and Worcester
- Rhos Derlwyn-Fawr, Dyfed
- Comins Capel-Betws, Dyfed
- Gwyneunydd Hafod-Wen, Powys
- Torrs Warren, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway
- Dalbeath Marsh, Dunfermline