Editing Local nature reserve (section)

==History==

=== National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act ===
The [[National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949]] combined elements of several of these categories in its definition of a nature reserve (Section 15).  The hope of the Special Committee was to see sites protected which represented sites of local scientific interest, which could be used by schools for field teaching and experiment, and in which people with no special interest in natural history could "...''derive great pleasure from the peaceful contemplation of nature''."

A local nature reserve is a [[statutory]] designation made under section 21 – "Establishment of nature reserves by local authorities" – of the [[National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949]] by [[local government in the United Kingdom|principal local authorities]] (district, borough or unitary councils) in [[England]], [[Scotland]] and [[Wales]].<ref name=LNRgovuk>[https://data.gov.uk/dataset/acdf4a9e-a115-41fb-bbe9-603c819aa7f7/local-nature-reserves-england ''Local Nature Reserves (England)''] at gov.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2022.</ref> [[Parish councils in England|Parish and town councils in England]] have no direct power to designate nature reserves, but they can have the powers to do so delegated to them by their principal local authority using section 101 of the [[Local Government Act 1972]].

The first LNR in Scotland was established in 1952 at [[Aberlady]] in [[East Lothian]].<ref>
{{cite book
 | title = Nature Conservation in Britain
 | author = Laurence Dudley Stamp
 | publisher = Collins
 | year = 1969
 | page = 177
 | isbn = 9780002131520
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uKc6AAAAMAAJ&q=Aberlady+%22first+local+nature+reserve%22
 }}</ref>