Paragraph 10

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

Sch. para.5 rev.in pt. by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation 1996 art.5(a)
Sch. para.10 amended by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation 1996 art.5(b)(i)
Sch. para.10(b) substituted by Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation 1996 art.5(b)(ii)
Sch. para. 4 words substituted by Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) 2026 reg. 4(2)

The farmer shall prepare and agree with the Secretary of State a comprehensive farm conservation plan for his land and keep this under review. Each farm conservation plan will cover a 5 year period of the Scheme and shall–

(a)

identify land and conservation features relevant to the requirements in paragraphs 1 to 9

(b)

if appropriate to the farm unit, contain details of the following farming operations on or contiguous with rough grazings–

(i)

a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve identified areas of heather in their existing condition, to regenerate suppressed areas of heather, or to maintain and enhance other areas of upland vegetation;

(ii)

a grazing plan and other measures necessary to conserve, enhance or extend areas of native woodland, amenity woodland and scrub and, if the farmer so wishes, limited amenity planting of trees;

(iii)

if the farmer so wishes, measures to restore dykes, stone buchts and fanks, to standards consistent with conservation interests;

(iv)

if the farmer so wishes, measures to improve the condition of features or areas of historic or archaeological interest.