§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many planning applications have been received in respect of land contained within each of the World Heritage sites in the United Kingdom since their declaration, how many have been approved, refused or are the subject of appeals against refusal, and how many of those appeals have been allowed, and rejected, and how many are pending.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment (Lord Hesketh):This informal ion, in so far as it relates to cases before my right honourable friend the Secretary of State, can only be provided at disproportionate cost. Information on planning applications received by local planning authorities is not held by the department.
§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
What instructions or advice have been given to the relevant planning authorities on how to exercise their functions in and beside World Heritage sites.
§ Lord Hesketh:None. But we will consider whether we can help local planning authorities with an explanatory passage on the World Heritage Convention when we next revise the relevant Department of the Environment circular (8/87).
§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will list the World Heritage sites now declared in the United Kingdom, and the 890WA planning authorities responsible for each, and the dates on which those authorities were notified by them of the declaration of the site.
§ Lord Hesketh:The English World Heritage sites, and the planning authorities are:
Durham Cathedral and Castle —Durham City Council Fountains Abbey and St. Mary's, Studley Royal —Harrogate Borough Council Ironbridge Gorge —The Wrekin District Council Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites —Salisbury and Kennet District Councils Blenheim Palace —West Oxfordshire District Council Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey —City of Westminster City of Bath —Bath City Council Hadrian's Wall Military Zone —Copeland Borough Council, Allerdale District Council, Carlisle City Council Tynedale District Council, Castle Morpeth Borough Council Newcastle upon Tyne City Council North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council, South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council, Northumberland County Council. The Tower of London —London Borough of Tower Hamlets Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's Church —Canterbury City Council The inscription of these sites on the World Heritage list was announced on various occasions in another place. Local planning authorities were not informed separately.
Responsibility for the other World Heritage sites in the United Kingdom—St. Kilda in Scotland, the castles and town walls of King Edward I in Wales and the Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland, lies with the respective Secretaries of State.