Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Act 1985

3 Maps of National Parks. E+W+S

(1) Section 43 of the principal Act (maps of National Parks showing certain areas of moor or heath) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(a)—

(a) for “the commencement date” there shall be substituted “the relevant date”;

(b) for the words from “of moor” to “which” there shall be substituted “to which this section applies whose natural beauty”.

(3) In subsection (1)(b), for the words from “at” to “year),” there shall be substituted “at intervals of not more than five years”.

(4) After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—

“(1A) In considering under subsection (1) whether any area to which this section applies is one whose natural beauty it is particularly important to conserve, a county planning authority shall act in accordance with the guidelines from time to time issued by the Countryside Commission under subsection (1B).

(1B) The Countryside Commission shall issue guidelines for the guidance of country planning authorities in considering as mentioned in subsection (1A), and may from time to time revise any guidelines so issued.

(1C) Before issuing or revising any guidelines under subsection (1B) the Commission shall consult such bodies as appear to them to represent interests concerned; and before preparing or revising any map under subsection (1) a county planning authority shall consult such bodies as appear to the authority to represent interests concerned with matters affecting the Park or part of the Park in question.”.

(5) After subsection (2) there shall be added—

“(3) This section applies to any area of mountain, moor, heath, woodland, down, cliff or foreshore (including any bank, barrier, dune, beach, flat or other land adjacent to the foreshore); and in this section ”the relevant date’ means the date of issue of the first guidelines under subsection (1B).”.