{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-exmoor-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards all land which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall not devote a larger area of land to the growing of arable crops than that in use for such crops on 31st August 1992;\n(2) the farmer shall not remove hedges, walls or banks, or any part thereof;\n(3) the farmer shall maintain stockproof hedges, banks and walls in a stockproof condition using traditional materials;\n(4) the farmer shall not erect any permanent fences, other than for hedgerow protection, without the Minister’s prior written approval;\n(5) the farmer shall maintain the banks and margins of streams, watercourses, ditches, ponds and other wetland features by mechanical means;\n(6) the farmer shall not install any new land drainage system or modify any existing land drainage system so as to bring about improved drainage;\n(7) within two years of the start of the agreement, the farmer shall obtain from a person approved by the Minister written advice on the management of existing woodland and on proposals to plant any new woodland. The farmer shall retain and manage individual trees and groups of trees;\n(8) the farmer shall not plant any new woodland, trees or hedges, construct ponds or remove scrub, without the Minister’s prior written approval;\n(9) the farmer shall not increase existing stocking levels or supplementary feeding levels in woodland areas\n(10) the farmer shall undertake control of bracken 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;\n(11) the farmer shall dispose of sheep dip safely and shall not spread it where it may affect areas of nature conservation value;\n(12) the farmer shall not plant any game cover crops without the Minister’s prior written approval;\n(13) the farmer shall not damage, destroy or remove any features of archaeological or historic interest;\n(14) the farmer shall maintain any weatherproof traditional farm buildings for which he is responsible in a weatherproof condition using traditional materials;\n(15) the farmer shall ensure that stock removed from the land do not graze areas of common which are not subject to an agreement;\n(16) the farmer shall obtain written advice on siting and materials from the Minister before constructing buildings or roads or before undertaking any other engineering or construction works which do not require prior notification determination by the local planning authority under the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988, or planning permission.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1813. The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1991/2805."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1302",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/83/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:06:41.963388+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."
}