§ Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if the proposed site of special scientific interest covering unimproved pasture near Talerddig Llanbrynmair, Montgomery, has been ploughed up during the three-month consultation period provided under section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981; and how many similar cases of destruction are known to his Department.
§ Mr. WaldegraveI am advised by the Nature Conservancy Council that a proposed site of special scientific interest comprising an area of unimproved pasture near Talerddig Llanbrynmair, Montgomery was damaged by ploughing during the three-month consultation period provided under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. This site, known as Gwyneunydd Hafod-Wen, was included in a short list of sites damaged or destroyed in similar circumstances in the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) on 1 May at column113.