Notice

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.