{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lleyn-peninsula-designation-order-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lleyn-peninsula-designation-order-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2027",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lleyn Peninsula) Designation Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lleyn-peninsula-designation-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards any land which is the subject of the agreement and which is rough land—\n(1) the farmer shall not install any new drainage system nor substantially modify any existing drainage system;\n(2) the farmer shall graze with cattle or sheep at an average annual stocking rate not exceeding 0·75 livestock units per hectare but in any event not so as to cause poaching, undergrazing or overgrazing;\n(3) the farmer shall burn gorse, heather or grass only in accordance with a programme agreed in advance with the Secretary of State;\n(4) the farmer shall not apply any type of fertiliser, slurry, lime, basic slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil;\n(5) the farmer shall not apply pesticides;\n(6) the farmer shall not apply herbicides except to control bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), nettles (Urtica dioica), spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare), creeping or field thistle (Cirsium arvense), curled dock (Rumex crispus), broadleaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius) or ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) and then only by spot treatment or weed wiper and in the case of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) by overall spray treatment;\n(7) the farmer shall control bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) only by means of asulam or other chemical approved by the Secretary of State or by cutting or crushing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced (by Schs 1-4)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/241",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lleyn Peninsula) Designation (Amendment) Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2027/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:06.215107+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."
}