...the vast majority by the end of April. The new all-Wales agri-environment scheme, Tir Gofal, will embrace the best practices from existing schemes. It is a whole farm initiative, to be run by the Countryside Council for Wales in partnership with the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency and Snowdonia national park. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales has launched three...
John Battle: ...with regard to the later spillage. The Department has an environmental unit that works closely with other bodies and Government Departments, such as the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the Countryside Council for Wales, which has commented on the prospects of environmental damage. I understand that the spillage has caused no great damage to birds or to shoreline habitats to date....
Nick Ainger: ...matter was originally dealt with by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution, which then became the Environment Agency. Obviously, massive amounts of staff time were devoted to the application. The Countryside Council for Wales was also heavily involved in respect of environmental impact, both marine and land. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was also involved in respect of...
Martin Caton: ...the benefit of additional financial resources directed to the English AONBs as an interim measure. The Countryside Agency submitted advice to the Government on the future of AONBs last June. The Countryside Council for Wales followed, with a similar submission to the Welsh Office in January. Both organisations expressed concern about the increasing pressures of modern society on our...
...to £10 million. However, that will not happen, because the European moneys are not additional to the Welsh block; they end up in the Treasury. The money is paid from the Intervention Board to the Countryside Council for Wales, from the CCW to the Welsh Office, and from the Welsh Office to the Treasury. Moneys that should have been available for a vital project for Welsh farming and rural...
Chris Mullin: ...protection and management of SSSIs. They are the 5,000 or so sites in England and Wales that constitute the best areas for nature conservation and have been designated by English Nature and the Countryside Council for Wales as containing nationally important species and habitats. Many SSSIs are well managed and in good condition, and I pay tribute to those owners and managers who have...
David Tredinnick: ...in management and enforcement envisaged in the Bill must be accompanied by adequate funding for the conservation agencies. The Minister can deal with English Nature in that respect, but the Countryside Council for Wales comes under the auspices of the Welsh Assembly. I wonder how the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) will look at those issues. The hon. Members for Brecon and...
Lord Whitty: This information is not collected by my department. The County Surveyors' Society has supplied the information in Table 1 for England, and the Countryside Council for Wales has provided the information in Table 2 for Wales. Table 1 Council Footpaths (km) Bridleways (km) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 555 150 Birmingham City Council 500 5 Bolton Metropolitan Borough...
Sarah Boyack: The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) is the forum through which Scottish Natural Heritage and its sister agencies, English Nature and the Countryside Council for Wales, deliver their statutory nature conservation responsibilities for Great Britain as a whole and internationally. The Scottish Executive may from time to time consult the JNCC and make representations to it on the...
Geraint Davies: ...of the public. They have worked well in many cases to help to protect various species and habitats, but that is not true in all cases. Being ethnically Welsh, I have some empathy for Wales. The Countryside Council for Wales has devised 222 biodiversity action plans, but 120 of those are not being progressed because there are no funds. The simple reason for the absence of those funds is...
Mr Simon Thomas: ...the mapping process, to apply for a direction and opt out, but that is not the answer for the several hundred sheep farmers in my constituency alone who may be affected. I do not think that the Countryside Council for Wales wants to deal with hundreds of appeals on what may be called, for the purposes of this debate, the semi-cultivated or semi-improved land. The definition needs to be far...
Michael Meacher: ...thought hard about what access provisions to include in the Bill. Our first priority was to meet the clear demand for more access for walkers. We took advice from the Countryside Agency and from the Countryside Council for Wales on what other areas to include. Both recommended a more vigorous use of existing mechanisms, such as voluntary agreements, to extend access to land adjoining...
.... I know that the Countryside Agency is ready to embark on this challenge, and that it will make good progress to the best of its ability. I am sure that the National Assembly for Wales and the Countryside Council for Wales will want to make equally rapid progress, but I do not think it right to impose an arbitrary timetable on the countryside bodies' responsible for drawing up maps when...
No. 155, in page 14, line 40, leave out— 'a National Park in Wales' and insert— 'Wales in respect of which the Countryside Council for Wales are not the relevant authority'.—[Mr. Meacher.]
In section 2(6) of the Countryside Act 1968 (Countryside Agency and Countryside Council for Wales to make recommendations to public bodies in relation to byelaws) for "and the Act of 1949" there is substituted ", the Act of 1949 and Part I of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000".'.—[Mr. Meacher.]
Michael Meacher: ...possible. We shall use the regulation-making power in clause 59 to require regular progress reports from local authorities, and we envisage a monitoring role for the Countryside Agency and the Countryside Council for Wales. 4.15 pm I now come to the key point—resources—which was mentioned with such conviction by my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish. We are committed to...
Michael Meacher: ...b) if the footpath or bridleway is on or contiguous with access land in England, to the Countryside Agency, and(c) if the footpath or bridleway is on or contiguous with access land in Wales, to the Countryside Council for Wales.(7) A notice under subsection (5)(a), (b) or (c) above shall be in such form and contain such information as may be prescribed.(8) If a person— (a) in a notice...
...amendments Nos. 297 and 298. Amendment No. 36, in clause 52, page 29, line 9, leave out "and" and insert— '( ) in relation to section 51(2)(ca), the Nature Conservancy Council for England and the Countryside Council for Wales (as appropriate): and'. Amendment No. 37, in page 29, line 9, leave out "and" and insert— '( ) organisations prescribed by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981...
Mr Simon Thomas: Will the Minister confirm that the reference in subsection (5) of the amendment to the Council as respects land in Wales refers to the Countryside Council for Wales? If so, the amendment should state that. The amendment applies to clause 60, which brings into effect schedule 8. I may be ignorant and innocent, but I have read the Bill closely over the past two days, and I cannot see in the...
David Heath: ...out by section 28E authorities listed on the notification of the SSSI as well as those that, in the opinion of the agency, are likely to cause damage are first referred to English Nature or the Countryside Council for Wales. The Minister will remember that we discussed the matter in Committee. He stated that the Bill already caught operations listed on the notification as, by implication,...
