Special Areas of Conservation
(asked on 18th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of special areas of conservation in each county in England are in a favourable condition.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The table below sets out the percentage of terrestrial special areas of consideration (SAC) feature area in each county assessed as being in favourable condition as of October 2025.
Four counties have no SAC features recorded within their boundaries and are therefore not listed in the table: Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and the City of London.
County | % of SAC features in favourable condition |
Berkshire | 66.0% |
Bristol | 3.3% |
Buckinghamshire | 56.1% |
Cambridgeshire | 45.1% |
Cheshire | 4.1% |
Cornwall | 27.9% |
Cumbria | 28.1% |
Derbyshire | 18.9% |
Devon | 37.5% |
Dorset | 40.0% |
Durham | 25.6% |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 46.7% |
East Sussex | 35.8% |
Essex | 26.3% |
Gloucestershire | 20.4% |
Greater London | 52.3% |
Greater Manchester | 2.9% |
Hampshire | 37.5% |
Herefordshire | 12.0% |
Hertfordshire | 81.9% |
Isle of Wight | 31.7% |
Kent | 49.0% |
Lancashire | 27.3% |
Leicestershire | 0.0% |
Lincolnshire | 47.5% |
Merseyside | 0.0% |
Norfolk | 27.6% |
North Yorkshire | 37.7% |
Northumberland | 30.8% |
Nottinghamshire | 0.0% |
Oxfordshire | 83.9% |
Shropshire | 4.7% |
Somerset | 27.7% |
South Yorkshire | 2.4% |
Staffordshire | 15.5% |
Suffolk | 41.8% |
Surrey | 69.9% |
Tyne & Wear | 12.5% |
Warwickshire | 100.0% |
West Midlands | 20.6% |
West Sussex | 35.9% |
West Yorkshire | 2.5% |
Wiltshire | 37.6% |
Worcestershire | 50.0% |