Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce legislative proposals to enshrine the concept of a listed landscape.

National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are well established national landscape designations that define areas with particular landscape qualities that merit protection. They are the jewels in the crown of our country's landscape and are given the strongest protection from damaging development.

Whilst Defra has no plans to introduce legislation to identify listed landscapes, English Heritage maintains a 'Register of Historic Parks and Gardens' which identifies over 1,600 sites assessed to be of national importance.