A new report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has stated that more needs to be done to manage and monitor the progress of ‘recovering’ SSSIs across England. PAC believes that Natural England and DEFRA need to establish a detailed plan to ensure that all SSSIs are moved into a favourable condition.

The PAC report also claimed out-of-date information and incomplete records have been used and a quarter of all sites going unchecked for a 6 year period to June 2008.

However, DEFRA and Natural England are on track to meet targets established in 2000 to bring 95% of all SSSIs into a ‘favourable’ or ‘recovering’ position by December 2010.

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