The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South West Peak) Designation Order 1993

Article 6(2)

SCHEDULE 2 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS—I

Option 1(a)—Pasture

1.  As regards any pasture which is the subject of an agreement—

(1) the farmer shall identify land which is pasture and shall maintain it as such for the length of the agreement;

(2) the farmer shall not apply inorganic or organic fertiliser except for farmyard manure produced on his farm. He shall apply farmyard manure in a single application not exceeding 20 tonnes per hectare in any year and in any event shall not apply slurry or pig or poultry manure;

(3) the farmer shall not chain harrow, roll or otherwise cultivate;

(4) the farmer shall not cut or top areas of rushes when birds are nesting in the vicinity;

(5) the farmer shall not exceed a stocking level of 0.6 livestock units per hectare between 31st March and 1st July in any year;

(6) the farmer shall observe subparagraphs (5) to (8) inclusive of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1.

Option 1(b)—Meadowland

2.  As regards meadowland which is the subject of an agreement—

(1) the farmer shall identify land which is meadowland and shall maintain it as such for the length of the agreement;

(2) the farmer shall not apply inorganic or organic fertiliser except for farmyard manure produced on his farm. He shall apply farmyard manure in a single application not exceeding 20 tonnes per hectare in any year and in any event shall not apply slurry or pig or poultry manure;

(3) the farmer shall not use a chain harrow or roller except between 16th July in any year and the following 1st April;

(4) the farmer shall exclude stock at least seven weeks before the first cut for hay or silage and in any event by 27th May in any year;

(5) the farmer shall cut and remove the grass and graze the aftermath, but shall not cut the grass before 8th July in any year, or for silage before 1st August in any year, and in any event at least once in every five years he shall make the first cut after 31st July;

(6) the farmer shall observe subparagraphs (5) to (8) inclusive of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1.

Option 2—Moorland

3.  As regards any moorland which is the subject of an agreement, the farmer shall not exceed a stocking level of 0.1 livestock units per hectare from 1st March until 30th September in any year and shall remove all livestock from 1st October in any year until the following 28th February.