SSSIs represent designated areas of land and water with high nature conservation potential. They are a subset of the more generic local sites referred to previously. Natural England is responsible for designating sites as SSSIs and reporting on their condition in six categories ranging from “favourable” to “destroyed”. We have used this data to calculate the total area of land and water in Herefordshire designated as a SSSI, and within this how much is categorised as “favourable”. By comparing the percentage that fails to reach favourable category over time we can ascertain the trend.