Public notice: Ribble Estuary NNR
Published 9 December 2020
Applies to England
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National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Declaration of National Nature Reserve
Parishes of Saint Anne’s on the Sea, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Hutton, Bryning-with-Warton, Freckleton, North Meols, Longton and other areas in the district of Fylde and the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton.
Counties of Lancashire and Merseyside.
NOTICE is hereby given that:
in accordance with section 19(3) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (as amended), and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, Natural England has, by the Ribble Estuary National Nature Reserve No.04 Declaration made on the 10th day of March 2020 declared that the land having a total area of 610.96 hectares or thereabouts, situated in the Parishes of Saint Anne’s on the Sea, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Hutton, Bryning-with-Warton, Freckleton, North Meols and Longton in the County of Lancashire and shown cross hatched black on the maps attached to the said Declaration (which land was included in the Ribble Marshes National Nature Reserve No.01 and No.02, and in the Ribble Estuary National Nature Reserve No.03 Declarations made by the Nature Conservancy Council on the 15th day of September 1981, the 12th day of December 1991 and on the 16th day of February 1995) has ceased to be held and managed by Natural England as a nature reserve or is no longer the subject of a nature reserve agreement.
And in pursuance of section 19(1) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and section 35(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, Natural England has declared the land having a total area of 1058.87 hectares or thereabouts, situated in the Parishes of Bryning-with-Warton, North Meols, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, the area of Lytham in the District of Fylde and other areas in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in the Counties of Lancashire and Merseyside and shown single or cross hatched and shaded yellow on the maps attached to the said Declaration, as a National Nature Reserve.
The land having a total area of 152.52 hectares or thereabouts, and shown with a single diagonal hatch and shaded yellow, is the subject of an agreement (the Agreement) dated 6th February 2020 between Natural England and Lytham and District Wildfowlers Association under the provisions of section 7 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006.
The land having a total area of 26.11 hectares or thereabouts, and shown with a single vertical hatch and shaded yellow, has been acquired and is held by Natural England.
The land having a total area of 880.24 hectares or thereabouts, and shown with a single horizontal hatch or cross hatched and shaded yellow, is held by The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, a body approved by Natural England.
The said land now having a total area of 5231.22 hectares or thereabouts is being managed as a nature reserve, and Natural England is satisfied that the 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
Mike Downey, Area Senior Adviser, National Nature Reserves, on behalf of Natural England.