Announcements

WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981 DECLARATION OF NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE PARISHES OF HOLT AND WEST MOORS
COUNTY OF DORSET
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 Holt Heath National Nature Reserve No. 2 Declaration 2015 made on the 24 day of November 2015, declared the land referred to therein a National Nature Reserve.
The land having a total area of 486. 14 hectares or thereabouts, situated in the parishes of Holt and West Moors in the county of Dorset and shown single hatched and shaded yellow on map C attached to the said Declaration is held by the National Trust, a body approved by Natural England, and is being managed as a nature reserve.
Natural England is satisfied that the said land is of national importance.
Certified copies of the Holt Heath National Nature Reserve No. 2 Declaration 2015 have been deposited for public inspection free of charge for one month during normal office hours at the offices of Dorset County Council, East Dorset District Council and at the offices of Natural England at Rivers House, Sunrise Business Park, Higher Shaftesbury Road, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8ST. A certified copy may also be viewed on Natural England's website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-nature-reserves- formal-notice-of-new-or-extended-sites.
Dated the 1st day of December 2015
on behalf of Natural England.