New Zealand has recently developed national policy that provides direct statutory protection for nationally important areas, and improved attention to regionally and locally important surf resources.
Martin Lyster Oxford Tony Hodbod (Letters, 26 October), in proposing Thorne Waste for an English national airport, must be unaware that it is a nationally important nature reserve.
But he represents a nationally important test case.
Lying two kilometres east of Loch Ness, it is nationally important for its dragonflies and damselflies.
Wooded habitats are 13 times richer in nationally important species than moorland*.
English Heritage lists the manor as Grade II, a building that is "nationally important and of special interest".
The royal household has been criticised in the past by MPs on the public accounts committee for "not looking after nationally important heritage properties adequately".
"It's a combination of having to deal with pretty weighty and intellectually challenging and oftentimes nationally important cases, and at the same time, trying to get a date.
"It would be the fulfillment of a professor's dream to have a book so widely read on a nationally important topic," Mr. Gillespie said.
The building had spent many years on the at risk register of nationally important buildings in danger of being lost forever, too derelict even for storage.
Nationally important prints, watercolours, paintings, sculptures, photography, and contemporary art include works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Antony Gormley and Francis Bacon.
