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16-411: A large part of the park is a local nature reserve and a Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation , Grade II. The site attracts wildlife such as dragonflies , damselflies , grey herons , little egrets , kingfishers , reed warblers and snipe . Sutcliffe Park is roughly square in shape and approximately 400m across. The River Quaggy meanders through the park, from the southeast corner to

32-848: A guide to their selection and declaration , 2000). National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 ( 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6 . c. 97) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which created the National Parks Commission which later became the Countryside Commission and then the Countryside Agency , which became Natural England when it merged with English Nature in 2006. The Act provided

48-406: A lake. The park was re-opened in 2004, and the central area of the park, around the flood water collection area was declared a local nature reserve in 2006. It received a Green Flag award for 2012–13. In September 2021, Sutcliffe Park hosted its first weekly parkrun . There is access from Tudway Road to the north, Eltham Road to the south, Kidbrooke Park Road to the west, and Dowding Drive to

64-409: 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

80-911: The A2 to the northeast. Local nature reserve 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. 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

96-586: 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:

112-511: The 1950s under the Act in mostly poor-quality agricultural upland . An eleventh 'national park' in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads was set up by a special Act of Parliament , the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act , in 1988. Strictly speaking, this is not a national park, but the differences are sufficiently small that this entity is always regarded as being "equivalent to" a national park. The New Forest

128-470: 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

144-511: The River Quaggy and laid out the site as playing fields. It was opened as a park in 1937, named after a former borough engineer. The area around the park still suffered from flooding, and in the 1990s the ground level was lowered in part of the park to hold flood waters, while the river was restored to meander at ground level. The scheme also including re-landscaping of the park to emphasise biodiversity and ecological benefits, with wetland areas and

160-508: The east. Buses , 122 , 178 , 321 , N21 serve the bus stops by the southern fence of the park on Eltham Road, buses 621 , and B16 serve other near by bus stops. Kidbrooke railway station is the closest train station located less than a mile to the north of the park. Several major A roads are within half a mile of Sutcliffe Park, the South Circular , and the A20 to the south of the park, and

176-565: The framework for the creation of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales , and also addressed public rights of way and access to open land. The Act was passed in 1949 with all-party support, as part of the reconstruction of the UK by the Labour government after World War II . The Act followed reports by: The first 10 British national parks were designated as such in

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192-481: The northwest corner. The park contains an athletics track, outdoor gym, children's play park, a car park and bicycle locking facilities mostly on the south side, several small lakes on the northwest side, and a larger lake on the northeast side, all close by to the River Quaggy. The site was formerly known as Harrow Meadow. It was prone to flooding, and in the 1930s, when the surrounding area was being developed for housing, Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council culverted

208-453: 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

224-527: 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

240-568: 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

256-702: Was designated a national park on 1 March 2005. The South Downs , the last of the 12 areas chosen in the 1947 Hobhouse Report, was designated as South Downs National Park by the Secretary of State Hilary Benn in March 2009, making 15 national parks in total. The structure set up by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 was amended by: Further amendments are made by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 , under which English Nature ,

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