Local nature reserve ( LNR ) is a statutory designation for certain nature reserves in Great Britain . The Wild Life Conservation Special Committee established them and proposed a national suite of protected areas comprising national nature reserves , conservation areas (which incorporated suggestions for Sites of Special Scientific Interest ), national parks, geological monuments, local nature reserves and local educational nature reserves.
12-498: Rawcliffe may refer to: Places [ edit ] Rawcliffe, East Riding of Yorkshire location of Rawcliffe railway station Rawcliffe Bridge , East Riding of Yorkshire Rawcliffe, North Yorkshire , a village located in the City of York Other uses [ edit ] Rawcliffe (surname) See also [ edit ] Out Rawcliffe (Lancashire) Topics referred to by
24-703: A population of 2,379, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 2,087. The village is served by a railway station on the Pontefract Line railway , originally part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway route to nearby Goole . The parish was part of the Goole Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974, then in Boothferry district of Humberside until 1996. The parish church
36-663: Is dedicated to St James and was designated a Grade II listed building in 1986. A 20 acres (8 ha) Local Nature Reserve , Sugar Mill Ponds, has been created on the site of an old sugar factory at Rawcliffe Bridge. This East Riding of Yorkshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Local Nature Reserve There are now over 1,280 LNRs in England, covering almost 40,000 hectares, which range from windswept coastal headlands and ancient woodlands to former inner city railways and long abandoned landfill sites. The National Parks and Access to
48-521: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rawcliffe, East Riding of Yorkshire Rawcliffe (or Rawcliffe in Snaith ) is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire , England on the border with North Yorkshire . It is situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Goole and 17 miles (27 km) south of York . It lies on
60-409: Is not, or may have other designations (although an LNR cannot also be a national nature reserve ). Except where the site is an SSSI, there is no legal necessity to manage an LNR to any set standard, but management agreements often exist. An LNR may be given protection against damaging operations. It also has certain protection against development on and around it. This protection is usually given via
72-586: The local plan (produced by the planning authority ), and often supplemented by local by-laws. However, there is no national legal protection specifically for LNRs. Information on LNRs is available from the Countryside Council for Wales ( A Place for Nature at your Doorstep: the role of Local Nature Reserves , 2004), Natural England ( Local Nature Reserves: places for people and wildlife , 2000) and Scottish Natural Heritage ( Local Nature Reserves in Scotland:
84-528: The Countryside Act 1949 combined elements of several of these categories in its definition of a nature reserve (Section 15). The hope of the Special Committee was to see sites protected which represented sites of local scientific interest, which could be used by schools for field teaching and experiment, and in which people with no special interest in natural history could "... derive great pleasure from
96-573: The banks of the River Aire just north of the M62 and on the A614 road . Rawcliffe, along with nearby Airmyn , was the location of one of the first reliable reports of the practice of warping in agriculture in the 1730s. The civil parish is formed by the village of Rawcliffe and the hamlet of Rawcliffe Bridge which lies just to the south-east of the village. According to the 2011 UK census , Rawcliffe parish had
108-453: The owner. The land must lie within the area which the declaring authority controls. LNRs are of local, but not necessarily national, importance. LNRs are almost always owned by local authorities, who often pass the management of the LNR onto County Wildlife Trusts . LNRs also often have good public access and facilities. An LNR can also be an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) , but often
120-576: The peaceful contemplation of nature ." A Local Nature Reserve (capitalised) is a statutory designation made under Section 21 – "Establishment of nature reserves by local authorities" – of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities (district, borough or unitary councils) in England , Scotland and Wales . Parish and town councils in England have no direct power to designate nature reserves, but they can have
132-568: The powers to do so delegated to them by their principal local authority using section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972 . The first LNR in Scotland was established in 1952 at Aberlady in East Lothian . To establish a LNR, the declaring local authority must first have a legal interest in the land concerned, for example, they could own it, lease it or have a nature reserve agreement with
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