TheCountryside Commission (formally theCountryside Commission for England and Wales, then theCountryside Commission for England) was a statutory body inEngland and Wales, and later inEngland only. Its forerunner, the National Parks Commission, was established in 1949 by theNational Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 to co-ordinate government activity in relation toNational Parks.[1]
This body became the Countryside Commission for England and Wales in 1968, when its duties were expanded to cover the countryside as a whole in England and Wales (a separateCountryside Commission for Scotland coveredScotland).
In 1991 theWelsh part of the organisation was split off and amalgamated with the equivalent part of theNature Conservancy Council (NCC) to become theCountryside Council for Wales. The rest of the organisation became the Countryside Commission for England – for the moment it remained separate fromEnglish Nature, as the English part of the NCC became.
The Countryside Commission ceased to exist in 1999 when it was merged with theRural Development Commission to form theCountryside Agency.[2] This has in turn evolved intoNatural England, partly by eventual merger with English Nature.
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