HC Deb 21 April 1988 vol 131 cc559-60W
Mr. John Garrett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in theOfficial Report the text of the letter he has sent to Norfolk county council concerning the route of the Dersingham bypass and its environmental consequences.

Mr. Moynihan

The Department wrote to the chief executive, Norfolk county council on 10 March. The letter referred to a deemed planning permission granted by the county council to itself in February 1987 for the A149 Dersingham-Ingoldisthorpe-Snettisham bypass. The letter stated The Secretary of State considers that it might be expedient, in the wider public interest, for an order to he made under Section 45 of the 1971 Act, revoking the deemed planning permission, in view of the importance of the Dersingham Bog Site of Special Scientific Interest in a national and international context, and the need to ensure that conservation issues are fully and publicly examined. The Secretary of State accordingly hereby consults the local planning authority, in compliance with section 276(1) of

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the 1971 Act, as to whether it is expedient that an order should be made. The Department also wishes to know whether, if the Council consider that an order should be made, they would be prepared to make the order themselves."

Mr. John Garrett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will institute a public inquiry into the potential effect to the Dersingham bog site of special scientific interest if the route of the proposed Dersingham bypass as approved by Norfolk county council is followed.

Mr. Moynihan

The Department awaits the county council's response to the consultation letter of 10 March. If the county council objects, the Secretary of State will consider whether he ought to make a revocation order himself. Should he decide to do so, an inquiry would be held into objections to the proposed order including those of the county council. Any inquiry would probably be separate from, but concurrent with, the inquiry into objections to the council's related compulsory purchase and side roads orders.