HC Deb 21 July 1994 vol 247 c458W
Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list(a) the sites of special scientific interest which have been identified for a road building or road widening programme and (b) those sites in respect of which he has (i) issued a Nature Conservation Order under section 29 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 or (ii) made an order for the compulsory purchase of the land in the last two years.

Mr. Atkins

Comprehensive information about road building or widening programnmes which might affect SSSIs is not held centrally and could not be obtained except at disproportionate cost. The following nature conservation orders have been made in the last two years:

Site Date made
Sawston Hall Meadows (Cambridgeshire) 1992 12 November 1992
Kernick and Ottery Meadows (Cornwall) 1993 27 April 1993
Lindisfarne (Northumberland) 1993 15 October 1993
Lingwood Meadows (Suffolk) 1994 8 February 1994

No compulsory purchase orders under part II of the 1981 Act have been made in the last two years.

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