# The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Lleyn Peninsula) Designation Order 1987, Paragraph 2


As regards any land which is the subject of the agreement and which is a hay meadow—
(1) the farmer shall not cut for hay or silage before 8th July in any year;
(2) the farmer shall take at least one cut for hay or silage after 7th July in any year;
(3) the farmer shall exclude livestock between 15th May and the first cut for hay or silage in any year;
(4) the farmer shall, subject to the requirement specified in the previous sub-paragraph, graze cattle and sheep between 8th July in any year and 15th May in the following year at an average stocking rate not exceeding 1 livestock unit per hectare but in any event not so as to cause poaching, undergrazing or overgrazing;
(5) the farmer shall not install any new drainage system nor substantially modify any existing drainage system;
(6) the farmer shall not apply any inorganic fertiliser, lime, basic slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil;
(7) the farmer shall not apply any organic fertiliser other than farmyard manure;
(8) the farmer shall not increase existing application rates of farmyard manure and shall not in any event apply more than 12·5 tonnes of farmyard manure per hectare per annum;
(9) the farmer shall not apply pesticides;
(10) 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;
(11) 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2027/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-lleyn-peninsula-designation-order-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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