{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-blackdown-hills-designation-order-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-blackdown-hills-designation-order-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/707",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Blackdown Hills) Designation Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-blackdown-hills-designation-order-1994",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards all low-input permanent grassland which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall maintain the land and shall not plough, level or reseed. He shall not cultivate except by means of a chain harrow or roller;\n(2) the farmer shall graze with livestock other than pigs or poultry but not so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;\n(3) the farmer shall not increase existing application rates of inorganic fertiliser and in any event shall not apply more than 75 kg of nitrogen, 37.5 kg of phosphate and 37.5 kg of potash per hectare per year;\n(4) the farmer shall not apply any organic fertiliser other than farmyard manure or slurry. He shall not increase existing application rates of farmyard manure or slurry and in any event shall not apply more than 25 tonnes per hectare per year. He shall not apply pig or poultry manure or sewage sludge;\n(5) the farmer shall not apply any lime, slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil;\n(6) the farmer shall not apply any fungicides or insecticides;\n(7) the farmer shall not apply any herbicides except to control bracken, stinging nettles, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broadleaved dock or ragwort or to carry out stump treatment of cleared scrub. Except in the case of bracken, herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by wick applicator or by spot treatment;\n(8) the farmer shall carry out any necessary braken control in accordance with a programme agreed in advance in writing with the Minister. Control shall be by means of asulam where mechanical means cannot be used;\n(9) where the farmer cuts the grass for hay, he shall continue to do so and shall graze the aftermath with livestock;\n(10) the farmer shall wilt and turn any grass cut for silage before removal;\n(11) the farmer shall not install any new land drainage system or modify any existing land drainage system so as to bring about improved drainage.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2233",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Blackdown Hills) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/707/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:37:16.808023+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}