Notice

Public notice: Pebblebed Heaths NNR

Published 13 May 2021

Applies to England

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Declaration of National Nature Reserve

Parishes of East Budleigh, Exmouth, Lympstone, Bicton, Woodbury, Colaton Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, Aylesbeare, Ottery St. Mary, Sidmouth and Otterton

County of Devon

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 Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve No.01 Declaration made on the 24 day of January 2020 declared the land referred to therein a National Nature Reserve.

The land having a total area of 1158.90 hectares or thereabouts, situated in the Parishes of East Budleigh, Exmouth, Lympstone, Bicton, Woodbury, Colaton Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, Aylesbeare, Ottery St. Mary, Sidmouth and Otterton in the county of Devon and shown shaded yellow on the map attached to the said Declaration is held by Clinton Devon Estates, Devon Wildlife Trust and The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, bodies approved by Natural England, and is being managed as a nature reserve. Natural England is satisfied that the said land is of national importance.

The declaration and associated map 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

Dagmar Junghanns, Area Senior Adviser, National Nature Reserves
on behalf of Natural England.