BRITISH BEAUTY SPOTS
NATIONAL PARK POLICY LONDON, Juno 28. The appointment of an authority to formulate a national park policy for the preservation of famous British beauty spots is recommended by a committee which was appointed by Mr Ramsay MacDonald in 1929, with Dr Addison as chairman. The committee’s report, _ issued recently, states that the objects to be achieved would be to safeguard areas of exceptional natural intere- against disorderly development and spoliation, to improve the means of access for pedestrians to areas of natural beauty, and to promote measures for tho protection of flora and fauna. Preservation in many cases could bo ensured by a planning scheme. Tho question of providing camp sites in natural reserves should bo examined.
Provision of huts or hostels might bo facilitated.
Areas examined and suggested by witnesses as suitable for national parks wore:—Snowd da, Dartmoor, New Forest, Exmoor, Dovedale, Peak District, Lake District, South Downs, Rowland Forest, Forest of Dean, Cannock Chase, West Riding, Cairngorms, Trossachs, Black Mountains, and Brecon Mountains.
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Evening Star, Issue 20846, 16 July 1931, Page 9
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