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	National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An eleventh 'national park' in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads was set up by a special Act of Parliament in 1988 (strictly speaking, this is not a national park, but the differences are sufficiently small that this entity is always regarded as being "equivalent to" a national park).
		The first 10 British national parks were designated as such in the 1950s under the Act in mostly poor-quality agricultural upland.
		The Act was passed in 1949 with all-party support, as part of the reconstruction of the UK by the Labour Party government after World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Parks_and_Access_to_the_Countryside_Act_1949 (390 words)

	Protected Areas Programme -
		One of the broader requirements of the Countryside Act, 1968 and the Countryside (Scotland) Act, 1967 was that all departments and agencies of the government should "have regard to the desirability of conserving the natural beauty (including flora, fauna and geological features) and amenity of the countryside".
		The Council for National Parks is a national voluntary organisation whose objectives are to promote the purposes for which the national parks were set up: the conservation of natural beauty and the promotion of the parks for the enjoyment of the public.
		The CC is responsible for the designation of national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty, and also defines heritage coasts: it advises on their administration and on the development of information and interpretation facilities, it also advises on the administration and management of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads and the New Forest.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/countrysheets/gbr.html (10536 words)

	UNEP-WCMC - Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories
		National designation Dartmoor was established as a national park in 1951 under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949.
		Legal basis of management Under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act the objective is to preserve the characteristic landscape beauty, to provide access and facilities for open-air enjoyment, and to protect wildlife and places of architectural and historic interest.
		The park's natural and cultural resources are protected, and land continues to be used in traditional ways and for recreation, contributing significantly to the local economy.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/categories/eng/ex-v.htm (2083 words)

	Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 does not cover Scotland, instead Scotland has National Scenic Areas but there are significant differences.
		AONBs are created under the same legislation as the national parks, the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
		However, further regulation and protection of AONBs was added by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, and the Government has recently said that it accepts that AONBs and national parks should have equal status when it comes to planning consent and other sensitive issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty (497 words)

	NATIONAL PARK DESIGNATION: A REVIEW OF HOW THE CRITERIA ARE APPLIED (00/3)
		In indicating broad areas of search for future National Parks, we should interpret this criterion to mean that we seek to ensure that people in all major conurbations have access to outstanding countryside, properly managed and promoted by a competent special purpose authority.
		Ease of travel (cost, public transport, travel time) from nearby towns, with an overall consideration as far as practicable that there is at least one National Park readily accessible from each of the main population centres in England
		A resultant National Park designation might then be justified if by aggregating these areas of landscape a sufficiently extensive area could be identified with the natural beauty and recreational opportunities to require the establishment of a special authority to manage it for National Park purposes.
	www.countryside.gov.uk /WhoWeAreAndWhatWeDo/boardMeetings/boardPapers/CA_AP00_03.asp (3245 words)

	Local Government (Wales) Act 1994
		—(1) In section 57 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (penalty for displaying on footpaths notices deterring public use), in subsection (3), after "district" insert "or, where they are not the highway authority, the council of the Welsh county or county borough".
		In paragraph 6 (functions not to be discharged by National Park Committees), in paragraph (a), at the beginning insert "in the case of a council or councils for a planning area or areas in England,".
		In section 1(10) of the [1990 c. 8.] Local Government (Overseas Assistance) Act 1993 (certain bodies on which powers are conferred by the Act), in paragraph (g), for "1 or 3" substitute "1, 3 or 3A" and at the end add "or under section 2(1B) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990".
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/acts1994/Ukpga_19940019_en_14.htm (2627 words)

	Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43)
		National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (c. 97)
		In section 1 of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980 (power to limit imports), in subsection (2) after the word "Council" there shall be inserted the words "for England, the Countryside Council for Wales".
		In paragraph 5 of Schedule 2, and in paragraph 17 of Schedule 3, to the Channel Tunnel Act 1987, after the words "Nature Conservancy Council" there shall be inserted the words "for England".
	www.opsi.gov.uk /ACTS/acts1990/Ukpga_19900043_en_19.htm (2094 words)

	Planning, Transportation and Environment Committee Cotswold Way National Trail
		The 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act gave the National Parks Commission a specific duty to identify and propose long distance routes intended to allow the public to make extensive journeys which, for the most part, do not pass along roads used by vehicles.
		As regards the latter, the situation is complicated in the BandNES area because no Definitive Footpath Map was prepared for the City of Bath under the provisions of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
		In 1992, a feasibility study was undertaken by the Countryside Commission to assess the potential of the existing Cotswold Way as a National Trail.
	www.bathnes.gov.uk /committee_papers/PTandE/pt000712/24cotswol.htm (2295 words)

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		The inspector also found that while there was little public access to the area of the estate within the order there were potential opportunities for open-air recreation, pursuant to s 5(2)(b) of the 1949 Act.
		On 24 January 2002, the Countryside Agency made the New Forest National Park (Designation Order) 2002 and submitted it to the defendant Secretary of State for confirmation.
		(1) The extended definition under s 114(2) was only applicable to the management of national parks under s 5(1) once designated under s 5(2).
	www.butterworths.co.uk /lawcampus/dataitem.asp?ID=58516&tid=7 (445 words)

	Countryside commission
		National Parks were initially constituted under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
		(Part V of the Act of 1949 has a virtual code of law about the creation of access agreements; of how special danger spots and woodlands are to be treated; about the compensa tion payable to landowners on to whose land the public will, by one of these agreements, be introduced.
		The National Park status is designed to provide the legal machinery by which a balance is held between encouraging public and tourist enjoyment and conserving and preserving the natural amenities, so that they may be enjoyed by future generations.
	www.cb.uklinux.net /countrys.htm (1667 words)

	[1996] 2 Web JCLI
		At first sight, Part V (ss 59-83) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (hereinafter "the 1949 Act") is a radical piece of legislation.
		If Part V of the 1949 Act is to play a part in strengthening the legal protection, emphasis and support accorded to the entitlement of the public to have access to 'open country', several changes to its essentially negative approach may be necessary.
		Although this element may be advantageous in the sense that it generates goodwill towards the idea of public access to land, it is probably not, in itself, a sufficient argument for retaining the provisions of the 1949 Act in their present form.
	webjcli.ncl.ac.uk /1996/issue2/parry2.html (4050 words)

	COUNTRYSIDE AND RIGHTS OF WAY BILL 2000: LACK OF PROVISION FOR AREAS OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AP00/11d)
		The AONBs and National Parks have been designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, which states them to be equivalent in terms of landscape quality.
		Section 87 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 is amended as follows.
		National Parks are managed by National Park Authorities under the Environment Act 1995.
	www.countryside.gov.uk /WhoWeAreAndWhatWeDo/boardMeetings/boardPapers/CA_AP00_11d.asp (2848 words)

	Articles - Personal Computing - Microsoft UK
		The first were created by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, and their protected status has since provided pleasure for millions who would otherwise have little or no access to an unspoilt countryside.
		Planning a trip to any of these national parks couldn't be simpler with AutoRoute, Microsoft's route planning software.
		Snowdonia National Park, in northern Wales, is famed for its mountains, the highest of which is Yr Wyddfa Fawr (1,085 m/3,560 ft), one of the five peaks of the Snowdon Massif (or Mount Snowdon) and the highest point in England and Wales.
	www.microsoft.com /uk/homepc/articles/nationalparks.asp (963 words)

	Malhamdale - Yorkshire Dales National Park
		It was officially dedicated as a National Park in 1954, as a result of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, because of the range of wildlife, habitats, beautiful scenery and local history.
		National Park Centres provide you with the information you need to get the most out of your visit to the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
		The Yorkshire Dales National Park covers an area of 1773 square kilometres of stunning scenery in the central Pennine Hills.
	www.malhamdale.com /ydnp.htm (444 words)

	UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
		The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 established a number of key concepts in connection with the establishment of nature reserves for the purpose of study and research and also for the preservation of flora, fauna or geological or physiographical features of special interest.
		National Nature Reserves (NNRs) declared under section 19 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 or section 35 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
		But key changes were introduced in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, primarily in response to agricultural pressures at odds with the conservation of key natural habitats.
	www.defra.gov.uk /WILDLIFE-COUNTRYSIDE/consult/sssi/29.htm (637 words)

	The CROW Act summarised
		places a duty on highway authorities and national park authorities to establish local access fora to advise relevant authorities on ‘the improvement of public access to land in that area for the purposes of open-air recreation and the enjoyment of the area’.
		Access land is land which appears to the countryside body (Countryside Agency (CA) and Countryside Council for Wales(CCW)) to consist wholly or predominantly of mountain, moor, heath or down and registered common land (s1(2)*).
		The countryside bodies have a duty to map all the access land (s4), though they need not show areas which they consider to be so small as to serve no useful purpose, and* they can alter the boundary to coincide with a physical feature.
	www.oss.org.uk /news/crow_act_summarised.htm (2506 words)

	Revised circular on compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) - consultation draft - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)
		Section 89(5) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 ("the 1949 Act") includes powers for a local planning authority to acquire land compulsorily in order to:
		Appendix E : Orders Made Under Section 89(5) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
		When considering whether to make an order under section 89(5) of the 1949 Act, or when preparing their case in support of such an order, authorities may find it helpful to have the Secretary of State's view about the meaning of the words "derelict, neglected or unsightly" for these purposes.
	www.odpm.gov.uk /index.asp?id=1147909 (511 words)

	National Parks for Scotland: page 42
		This means that National Park authorities may provide camping sites for recreational purposes, and to do anything desirable in connection with providing these sites, and can provide for accommodation, meals and refreshments where existing facilities are inadequate.
		(2) In the application of section 49 of that Act to a National Park authority, for the words "whether for the benefit of the inhabitants of their own area or otherwise" there is substituted "in the National Park".
		This schedule confers on National Park authorities various functions, some of which are provided for by reference to other Acts of Parliament.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /consultations/nationalparks/npcd-42.asp?textonly=FALSE (727 words)

	CCC Week 9: National Parks
		We will look at the history of the national parks in England and Wales and at some of the issues that arise because of our (England and Wales) unique approach.
		"The purposes for which a national park is designated are to conserve the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of its area and to provide for the enjoyment and understanding of its special qualities by the public.
		Stedman N 1993 "Conservation in National Parks" in Goldsmith F B and Warren A (eds) Conservation in Progress London: John Wiley and Sons pp 209-239
	web.apu.ac.uk /geography/ccc/week09.htm (572 words)

	Hampshire County Council
		National Nature Reserves (NNRs) 3.16 National Nature Reserves (NNRs) are sites which have been declared by English Nature under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 or the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
		Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) 3.18 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty were first defined in the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act as "areas which are of such outstanding natural beauty that it is desirable that the provision of the Act should relate to them also".
		Under the 1981 Act SSSIs have to be formally notified to the owners and occupiers of the land and the Secretary of State for the Environment, the local planning authority, Environment Agency, Water Companies and the Internal Drainage Boards.
	www.hants.gov.uk /scrmxn/c24614.html (1985 words)

	Dartmoor National Park Authority
		Fifty years on, thanks in part to the special protection that National Park status has provided, Dartmoor is essentially the same landscape - characterised by beautiful heather moorland, granite tors, green, oak-wooded valleys, bubbling streams and rivers, and a surrounding mosaic of fields, granite churches and village buildings.
		The Dartmoor National Park Authority recognises and appreciates the benefits of this recreational activity, and strives to balance the need for conservation with a freedom to enjoy all that Dartmoor has to offer.
		Increased access to transport and changes in the pattern of leisure pursuits has meant that more people are enjoying the fresh air and beautiful scenery of Dartmoor.
	www.events.ex.ac.uk /tentors/dnpa/dnpa.htm (281 words)

	A comparison of coastal designations in European marine sites
		Established under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
		Initially established under the Town and Country Planning Act 1972 and amended in the Town and Country Planning Act Scotland 1986.
		Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended 1985)
	www.ukmarinesac.org.uk /activities/recreation/r07_01_1.htm (410 words)

	National Parks
		Twelve National Parks have been designated in England and Wales, since the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act.
		The Council for National Parks is a Registered Charity No. 295336 and Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in England and Wales at 6/7 Barnard Mews, London, SW11 1QU (No. 2045556).
		There are two National Parks in Scotland: Loch Lomond and The Trossachs, and the Cairngorms.
	www.cnp.org.uk /national_parks.htm (390 words)

	Protected sites designations
		NNRs are declared by the statutory country conservation agencies under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
		Country Parks are statutorily declared and managed by local authorities in England and Wales under the Countryside Act 1968 and in Scotland under the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967 (in Northern Ireland Country Parks exist as a non-statutory designation).
		Regional Parks are extensive areas of the countryside where existing land uses continue but are managed by agreement with the landowners to also allow for public access and informal recreation and to protect local landscapes.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-1527 (3222 words)

	Snowdonia
		Unlike "wild" National Parks elsewhere in the world, Snowdonia is home to just over 26,000 people, who live and work in its towns and villages, and on its hill farms.
		The second largest National Park in the country, after the Lake District; and the third to be designated, after the Lakes and the Peak District, in 1951, Snowdonia celebrates half a century as a protected landscape in 2001.
		The National Park covers 840 square miles of the most beautiful and un spoilt countryside in north west Wales.
	www.garthyfog.co.uk /snowdonia.htm (189 words)

	New Forest to be a National Park
		National Parks in England and Wales are designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
		Each of them has a National Park Authority, which looks after conservation issues and helps people to understand and enjoy their special qualities, as well as seeking to foster the social and economic well-being of communities the National Parks.
		The current National Parks in England are Dartmoor, Exmoor, the Lake District, the North York Moors, Northumberland, the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales.
	www.britainusa.com /sections/articles_show.asp?SarticleType=1&Article_ID=5437&i=129 (346 words)

	Somerset & Exmoor National Park Joint Structure Plan Review - Appendices
		An extensive tract of countryside selected for its natural beauty and the opportunities afforded for open air recreation, having regard both to its character and position in relation to centres of population, and designated under the provisions of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
		National policy guidance issued by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions on a variety of matters related to land-use planning activities.
		Parks and gardens created before 1939 which still retain their special interest and which have been listed and graded in the Register of Historic Gardens first published by English Heritage in 1984.
	www.somerset.gov.uk /enprop/strucplan/appendices1.htm (4577 words)

	Introduction to Areas of Outstanding Natural
		Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) are designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (1949), and along with National Parks they represent the finest examples of countryside in England and Wales.
		National Parks and AONBs were created by the same Act of Parliament and are of equal importance in terms of landscape value.
		The Countryside Agency is responsible for designating AONBs and advising Government and others on how they should be protected and managed.
	www.tamarvalley.org.uk /3_1_whatis.htm (599 words)

	table48print.php
		National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (1949)
		Act (2000) The Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000)
		Receipt of a formal notification from English Nature or the Countryside Council for Wales, that the LA's actions may have contravened environmental legislation
	www.alge.org.uk /publications/bvb/table48print.php (244 words)

	GLASS library - National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act 1949
		GLASS library - National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
		the Countryside Agency and the Countryside Council for Wales
		General powers of local planning authorities in relation to National Parks
	www.glass-uk.org /pub-library/acts/npaca49 (149 words)

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