The excellent report "Cash Or Crisis" from the Friends of the Earth says:Not only has the Government denied the NCC the funds for this ultimate sanction, but, much earlier in the day the cash based conservation system is foundering on a shortage of funds for management agreements, and an unwieldy, unworkable system which places no compulsion on landowners or occupiers to accept any sort of cash settlement".

As the report "Cash Or Crisis" spells out clearly,The NCC has a choice.