# The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Blackdown Hills) Designation Order 1994, Paragraph 4


As regards all unimproved pasture and rough land which is the subject of an agreement—
(1) the farmer shall maintain the land and shall not excavate, plough, level, reseed, chain harrow, roll or otherwise cultivate except that he may top unimproved pasture once from 1st July in any year until the following 31st March inclusive;
(2) the farmer shall graze unimproved pasture with cattle or sheep or both and shall graze rough land with cattle from 1st April to 31st October inclusive in any year and may graze in addition with sheep during this period;
(3) the farmer shall remove all livestock from rough land from 1st November in any year until the following 31st March inclusive;
(4) the farmer shall not graze the land with livestock so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;
(5) the farmer shall not apply any organic or inorganic fertiliser;
(6) the farmer shall not apply any lime, slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil;
(7) the farmer shall not apply any fungicides or insecticides;
(8) 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;
(9) the farmer shall carry out any necessary bracken control in accordance with a programme agreed in writing in advance with the Minister.Control shall be by means of asulam where mechanical means cannot be used;
(10) within two years of the start of the agreement, the farmer shall agree in writing with the Minister a programme to manage scrub and rushes on heathland and wetland;
(11) the farmer shall not erect any temporary fencing without the Minister’s prior written approval;
(12) the farmer shall not install any new land drainage system or modify any existing land drainage so as to bring about improved drainage;
(13) the farmer shall not provide livestock with supplementary feed or mineral or feed blocks.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/707/schedule/1/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-blackdown-hills-designation-order-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-4
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