HL Deb 17 December 1987 vol 491 cc907-8WA
Lord Gray of Contin

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether any of the nine sites nominated by them for inclusion on the World Heritage List have been accepted and whether any further nominations are to be submitted to the World Heritage Committee.

The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Lord Belstead)

At its meeting last week in Paris the World Heritage Committee considered the UK's nine sites nominated for inclusion on the World Heritage List. Of these the committee agreed that the following four should be inscribed on the list immediately:

  • Blenheim Palace
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  • Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's
  • City of Bath
  • Hadrian's Wall.

The committee decided against inscribing on to the list three of the sites. These sites are:

St. David's Close and Bishop's Palace, Dyfed

St. Helena: Diana's Peak and High Peak, South Atlantic Ocean

Ecclesiastical sites of Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh.

Finally, the committee is arranging for the new Lanark nomination to be re-evaluated, and the Lake District is to be considered by a special sub-committee. Both nominations will therefore be considered again by the World Heritage Committee in 1988.

For the list in 1988, the sites we have chosen are:

  • Tower of London
  • Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
  • SS Great Britain and Western Dock, Bristol
  • Menai and Conwy Suspension Bridges, Gwynedd
  • Navan Fort, N. Ireland
  • Henderson Island, South Pacific Ocean.