QBD 24 January 1989. Mr Sweet (S) had a Nature Conservation order made out on land which comprised 3 meadows and associated ditches totalling 7.57 hectares but, contained within a much larger SSSI . The order was made under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and remained unaltered after a public inquiry . S challenged the order on the basis that only the part of the land that was of scientific significance was covered by the notice, the rest was merely contiguous. This approach was rejected as the statute entitled the SoS to draw boundaries of the order where he had done and treat the site as a whole. S`s second challenge to the order concerned the range of activities prevented by the order. S argued that the Act referred to`operations` such as cultivation and use of vehicles. he considered that some of these `operations` were `activities` and did not need to be notified to the NCC. This approach was also rejected as the terms, although not precise, were sufficiently broad as to e