Paragraph 12 Hedgerows

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv) words inserted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(i)
Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv)(bb) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(ii)
Sch. para. 13(5)(b) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(f)
Sch. para. 16(1)(a) word substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(g)

(1)

Except where sub-paragraph (2), (3) or (4) applies, a farmer must not cut or trim any hedgerow during the period within any year beginning with 1st March and ending with 31st July.

(2)

A farmer may cut or trim a hedgerow at any time if it is necessary to cut or trim it because—

(a)

it overhangs a highway or any other road or footpath to which the public has access so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of vehicles or pedestrians;

(b)

it obstructs or interferes with the view of drivers of vehicles or the light from a public lamp;

(c)

it overhangs a highway so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of horse-riders; or

(d)

it is dead, diseased, damaged or insecurely rooted, and because of its condition it, or part of it, is likely to cause danger by falling on a highway, road or footpath.

(3)

A farmer may carry out hedge-laying and coppicing during the period beginning with 1st March and ending with 30th April.

(4)

A farmer may trim a hedgerow by hand during a period of six months beginning with the first day after the hedgerow was laid.