§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the sites of special scientific interest in the ownership of his Department or its agencies. [129345]
§ Mr. McNultyThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency is the owner of one site designated as being SSSI. This site is at Prawle Point in Devon.
The Highways Agency is the owner/part owner of 43 sites within the operational estate and two sites within the non-operational estate, designated as being SSSIs. The sites are as follows:
Operational estate:
- Severn Estuary
- Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain
- River Kennet
- River Lambourn
- Aston Rowant
- Devil's Dyke
- Tebay Road Cuttings
- Ashburton Road Cuttings
- Buckland-in-the-Moor
- Slop Bog and Uddens Heath
692W - >Epping Forest
- Purfleet Road, Aveley
- River Wye
- River Test
- The New Forest
- Hurcott and Podmore Pools
- River Lugg
- River Wye, Hereford and Worcester
- Wilton Bluff, Ross
- Ashwell Springs
- Northaw Great Wood
- Sherrards Park Wood
- Therfield Heath
- Castlethorpe Tufas
- Humber Flats and Marshes: Upper Humber
- Folkestone Warren
- Ant Broads and Marshes
- Potter and Scarning Fens
- Southfield Farm Marsh
- River Coquet and Coquet Valley Woodlands
- Aston Rowant Cutting
- Sugworth
- River Severn at Montford
- Doxey and Tillington Marshes
- Orwell Estuary
- Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons
- Titsey Woods
- Griff Hill Quarry
- River Blythe
- Stockton Railway Cutting and Quarry
- Ufton Fields
- Bingley South Bog
- Hook Moor
Non-operational estate:
Plot 1—Bescott Viaduct, Walsall, West MidlandsLand adjoining M3 and River Itchen, Itchen Abbas, HampshireTo the best of our knowledge these are the only SSSI on the DfT estate.