The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996

Amendment of the principal Order

5.  In the Schedule to the principal Order (requirements to be included in an agreement)–

(a) in paragraph 5 the words “undertake to” shall be omitted; and

(b) in paragraph 10–

(i) for the word “Scheme” there shall be substituted the word “agreement”; and

(ii) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted–

“(b) if appropriate to the farm unit, contain details of the following farming operations–

(i) a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve identified areas of heather in their existing condition, to regenerate suppressed areas of heather, or to maintain and enhance other areas of upland vegetation;

(ii) a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of native woodland, amenity woodland and scrub on or contiguous with rough grazings and, if the farmer so wishes, limited amenity planting of trees;

(iii) if the farmer so wishes, measures to restore dykes, stone buchts, fanks and hedges, to standards consistent with conservation interests;

(iv) if the farmer so wishes, measures to improve the condition of features or areas of historic or archaeological interest;

(v) if the farmer so wishes, a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of wetlands;

(vi) if the farmer so wishes, a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend water margins, the margin of which must be at least 6 metres wide; and

(vii) if the farmer so wishes, a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of herb rich grassland.”.