The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage III) Designation Order 2000

articles 2(1) and(3), 3 and 5(1)

SCHEDULE 3 LAKE DISTRICT

PART 1 DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

The area of land in the Lake District in the county of Cumbria which is shown coloured yellow on the maps contained in the volume of maps marked “Volume of maps of the Lake District environmentally sensitive area” dated 6th November 2000, signed on behalf of the Minister by the Parliamentary Secretary and deposited at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.

PART 2 CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

• The planting, coppicing or laying of hedges.

• The regeneration of wildlife habitats, including suppressed heather, juniper scrub and water margins.

• The control of bracken.

• The renovation of farm buildings using traditional materials.

• The creation of flower-rich meadowland.

• Works to protect historic and archaeological features.

• The provision and restoration of gates, stiles and footbridges where an agreement includes requirements as to public access.

• The creation or restoration of ponds.

• Tree-planting.

• Pollarding of trees.

• Restoration and replanting of traditional orchards.

• Fencing associated with the exclusion of stock under item 9(b) of Part 3 of this Schedule.

• The provision and restoration of timber gates and gate posts.

• Other works for the restoration or enhancement of wildlife habitats.

PART 3 MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

column 1	column 2
Activity	Maximum rate in £ per hectare of land per annum (except where otherwise stated)
1.  Maintenance of cultivated land.	12
2.  Management of inbye land.	47
3.  Management of intake land.	22
4.  Maintenance of fell without heather.	25
5.  As regards heather fell— (a) maintenance of heather fell	38
(b) management of heather fell	42
(c) enhanced management of heather fell	50
6.  Management of meadowland.	190
7.  Management of other habitats through controlled grazing and restricted agricultural admixtures.	100
8.  Where management of any kind referred to in item 5(a), (b) or (c) is undertaken, additional management for the purpose of the early adoption of winter stocking restrictions.	10
9.  In relation to woodland— (a) maintenance of existing woodland	12
(b) management of woodland to enhance its nature conservation and landscape value.	200
10  The provision of public access routes.	170
11.  Management of any kind referred to in items 1 to 9 above which is undertaken in relation to common land.	5
12.  Hedgerow restoration.	£4 per metre
13.  Wall restoration.	£16 per metre
14.  Management of pasture land.	105
15.  Management of wetland.	70

PART 4 DEFINITIONS

In this Schedule:

“fell” means land which is covered by semi-natural upland vegetation and is generally unenclosed except along ownership boundaries;

“heather fell” means fell comprised in a grazing unit where the area of heather is greater than 25 hectares or represents more than 25 per cent of the area of the unit;

“heather” means common heather (calluna vulgaris), and includes common heather growing in association with other ericaceous dwarf shrub species;

“inbye land” means enclosed grassland which has not been ploughed, levelled, drained or reseeded for at least ten years and which is subject to regular treatment with fertilizers, used for pasture or for the production of hay or silage;

“intake land” means enclosed land used exclusively for grazing, most of which has not been regularly ploughed, levelled, drained or treated with fertilizers, lime, slag or pesticides;

“meadowland” means grassland primarily used for the production of hay or silage;

“pasture” means enclosed grassland that is not normally ploughed or reseeded within a period of ten years, is used for the production of pasture and is subject to regular inputs of fertilizer;

“wetland” means land which is subject to regular flooding or which is waterlogged for the greater part of the year.