{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-borders-designation-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-borders-designation-order-1993/schedule/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2767",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Borders) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-central-borders-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The farmer shall prepare and agree with the Secretary of State a comprehensive farm conservation plan for his land, implement the terms of the plan and keep the operation of the plan under review. Each farm conservation plan will cover a 5 year period of the Scheme and shall–\n(a) identify land and conservation features relevant to the requirements in paragraphs 1 to 9 above;\n(b) if appropriate to the farm unit, contain details of the following farming operations:–\n(i) a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of wetlands;\n(ii) a grazing plan and other measures within the catchment necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of specially identified wetlands;\n(iii) a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend water margins, the margin of which must be at least 6 metres wide;\n(iv) a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of herb rich grassland;\n(v) a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of amenity or native or semi-natural woodland and scrub and if the farmer so wishes, limited amenity planting of trees;\n(vi) if the farmer so wishes, measures to restore dykes, stone fanks, hedges, hedgerow trees and ponds to standards consistent with conservation interests;\n(vii) if the farmer so wishes, measures to improve the condition of features or areas of historic or archaeological interest;\n(viii) if the farmer so wishes, the creation of extended hedges or grass margins around fields to be used for rotational cropping by–\n(a) not cropping a strip of at least 2 metres width;\n(b) not applying chemicals or spreading fertiliser (including slurry) to a headland of at least 8 metres width;\n(c) applying any other management as appropriate;\n(ix) if the farmer so wishes, the creation of extended hedges around improved grassland fields by–\n(a) fencing at least 3 metres from the centre line of the hedge;\n(b) not applying chemicals or spreading fertiliser (including slurry) within 9 metres of the centre line of the hedge;\n(c) management of the strip in the interests of conservation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1964",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Borders) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/240",
      "affecting_title": "The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2767/schedule/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:47:36.184980+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."
}