Public notice: King’s Wood and Rushmere NNR
Published 8 December 2020
Applies to England
National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Declaration of National Nature Reserve
Parishes of Soulbury and Heath and Reach
Counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
NOTICE is hereby given that:
In pursuance of section 35(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, Natural England has, by the King’s Wood and Rushmere National Nature Reserve No.04 Declaration made on the 11th day of November 2020, declared the land referred to therein a National Nature Reserve.
The land having a total area of 43.15 hectares or thereabouts, situated in the Parishes of Soulbury and Heath and Reach in the Counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and shown single hatched and shaded yellow on the maps attached to the said Declaration, is held by Tarmac Ltd and The Greensand Trust, bodies approved by Natural England, and is being managed as a nature reserve.
Natural England is satisfied that the said land is of national importance.
The declaration and associated maps may be viewed on Natural England’s website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-nature-reserves-formal-notice-of-new-or-extended-sites
Alistair Helliwell, Area Senior Adviser, National Nature Reserves, on behalf of Natural England.