Nature Conservancy Council: Committees: Registered Files

FT 16

1974-1991

This series contains registered files of the Nature Conservancy Council's Advisory Committee for England and England Board of Management.

EA file series

Public Record(s)

English

158 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

The England Headquarters of the Nature Conservancy Council (along with those of Scotland and Wales) was established following the Nature Conservancy Council Act 1973. The body occupied separate premises from the Great Britain Headquarters, moving in 1975 from Cambridge Gate, London, to Banbury, and subsequently relocating to Peterborough in 1984. The Secretariat at England Headquarters maintained records of the Advisory Committee for England and the England Board of Management until the dissolution of both bodies along with the Council itself in April 1991.

The Advisory Committee, which had existed under the Nature Conservancy, was re-established by the Act, which conferred on Council the duty to appoint the Committee with a Chairman from amongst its own members. The Committee's functions did not change from those established in 1949, and it continued to advise its own Chairman on issues relating to reserves and approve Schedules of Sites of Special Scientific Interest. It had a monitoring role as to the effect of policies on local problems, and, for example, from its inception monitored the effect on local conservation of developments associated with the building of the Channel Tunnel.

The England Board, responsible for the management of Headquarters operations, consisted initially of the Director, England, Senior Land Agent, Administrative Officer, and Regional Officers: subsequently, a number of other officers were added as Headquarters acquired various specialist staff, and eventually its own Science Division, England Field Unit and England Data Unit.