{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2030",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards any moorland which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) The farmer shall ensure that between 31st December in any year and the following 1st April he grazes overwintering ewes and hoggs at a stocking rate not exceeding 75 per cent of the average stocking rate achieved by him in relation to the same land over the years 1985—1987 inclusive.\n(2) The farmer shall carry out any supplementary feeding of livestock in rotation around the moorland and in any event not so as to cause poaching.\n(3) The farmer shall burn or cut heather, grass or scrub in accordance with a programme agreed in advance with the Minister.\n(4) The farmer shall not plough, level, re-seed or otherwise cultivate.\n(5) The farmer shall not apply lime, slag or any substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil.\n(6) The farmer shall not apply any organic or inorganic fertiliser.\n(7) The farmer shall not apply pesticides.\n(8) The farmer shall not apply herbicides except to control bracken, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broadleaved dock or ragwort. Herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by weed wiper or by spot treatment. In the case of bracken, control shall be by means of asulam or other chemical approved by the Minister.\n(9) The farmer shall not install any new drainage system nor substantially modify any existing drainage system.\n(10) The farmer shall not erect any new fence across moorland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2030/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:03.982037+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."
}