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National Parks And Access To The Countryside Act 1949The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 is the UK Act of Parliament which facilitated the creation of national parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales. The Act was passed in 1949 with all party support, as part of the reconstruction of the UK by the Labour Party government after World War II. The Act following reports by: The first 10 British national parks were designated as such in the 1950s under the Act in mostly poor-quality agricultural upland. An eleventh 'national park' in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads was set up by a special Act of Parliament in 1988 (strictly speaking, this is not a national park, but the differences are sufficiently small that this entity is always regarded as being "equivalent to" a national park). The New Forest was designated a national park on 1 March 2005. One more area is as of 2005 in the process of being designated as a national park, the South Downs (the last of the 12 areas chosen in the 1947 Hobhouse Report which has yet to become a national park). The structure set up by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 was amended by the Environment Act 1995, under which each national park is now operated by its own National Park Authority. See also
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