1999 No. 2232
The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Essex Coast) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
Whereas, pursuant to section 18(1) of the Agriculture Act 19861, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (“the Minister”) has by order designated an area on the Essex Coast as an environmentally sensitive area (“the designated area”);
And whereas it appears to the Minister that it is particularly desirable–
to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the designated area together with an additional area on the Essex Coast;
to conserve the flora and fauna and geological and physiographical features of those areas; and
to protect buildings and other objects of historic interest in that area;
And whereas it appears to the Minister that the maintenance or adoption of particular agricultural methods in respect of the matters specified in the Schedules to the following Order is likely to facilitate such conservation, enhancement or protection;
Now therefore, the Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1) and (4)2 of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with the Secretary of State, the Countryside Agency and the Nature Conservancy Council for England3 in accordance with section 18(1) of the said Act, and with the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England in accordance with section 99 of the Environment Act 19954, makes the following Order: