§ 32. Mr. BellinghamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received from the Nature Conservancy Council in connection with the A149 Dersingham bypass.
§ Mr. MoynihanIn February 1987 the Nature Conservancy Council made the Department aware of objections it had made to Norfolk county council (in a letter of 2 February 1987) about the route of the proposed A 149 Dersingham bypass through the Dersingham bog (a site of special scientific interest). On 17 March 1987, the director of the Nature Conservancy Council wrote to the Department stressing the conservation importance of the site and the impact on it of road construction and stating his belief that less damage would be caused if a more north-easterly route which did not traverse the bog could478W be substituted for that approved by Norfolk county council on 19 February 1987. The Department also received a copy of the letter of 19 April 1988 sent by the Nature Conservancy Council to Norfolk county council and letters sent by it on 11 and 12 February 1988 to the Department of Transport setting out its objections to the compulsory purchase and side roads orders relating to the proposed bypass.