— NW LEAPS CENTRAL ivi jr fy Environmental Overview of Central Area 2001 En v ir o n m e n t Ag en c y Contact details If you wish to discuss any matters in this report please contact: Stephen Hemingway Team Leader LEAPs Environment Agency PO Box 5 19 South Preston PR 58G D Telephone: 01772 339882 E n v ir o n m e n t Ag e n c y E-mail:
[email protected] NATIONAL LIBRARY & Website: www.environment-agency.gov.uk INFORMATION SERVICE Acknowledgements HEAD OFFICE Rio House. Waterside Drive, The following Agency Officers have all gladly contributed Aztec West, Almondsbury. Bristol BS32 4UD to this Environmental Overview: Chris Smith, Paul Birchall, Eimmer Branney, Richard Ward, Hannah Green, Richard Hatch, Phil Heath, Steve Whittam, Richard Shirres, Steve Coupe, Alex Cornish, Lesley Ormerod, Richard Martin, Ed Mycock, Neil Guthrie, Mark Atherton, Rebecca Oldfield, John Young and Steve Devitt. Maps 1 to 6 produced by Dominic Nickson. Maps 7 to 8 produced by Rebecca Oldfield. We would also like to thank: Cheryl Flynn of British Waterways, Tim Mitcham of the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Mark Beard of English Nature and Andrew Mullaney of Lancashire County Council, for their help and advice. ) Introduction to the ____ Environmental Overview We want to play our part in improving the quality o f life for local people. One of the ways we demonstrate that we are open and transparent in how we do this is by producing Local Environment Agency Plans. These plans include Action Plans and the Environmental Overview.