New National Park - South Downs

[Miss Demeanour]

Hundreds of square miles across southern England will be made a national park, the government announced today.
The new South Downs national park will spread across Sussex and Hampshire thanks to a decision that comes more than 60 years after the area was recommended for park status, and a decade since the government first announced its intention to designate it as such.
Designation of the South Downs, a tract of countryside between Winchester and Eastbourne, has been held up by a public inquiry and years of legal wrangling.


How long can it take to make such decisions - 

I don't know the area very well is this worthy of being a National Park ?

[Snoopy]

Yes it is and no it should not have taken so long but the M27 and the abortion they made of the Winchester bypass had a lot to do with the delays (Sorry JOM but I still hate it)










One very good reason for the status of National Park is that I come from there.