{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1987/schedule-2/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/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards any inbye land and enclosed rough grazing land which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) The farmer shall exclude stock for at least seven weeks before cutting grass for hay or silage.\n(2) The farmer shall not cut grass for hay or silage before 16th July in any year and in any event not before the herbage has flowered and set seed.\n(3) Where the farmer cuts grass for hay or silage he shall graze the aftermath with livestock.\n(4) The farmer shall graze with sheep at an average stocking rate not exceeding 0.3 livestock units per hectare per year but in any event not so as to cause poaching, undergrazing or overgrazing.\n(5) The farmer shall not apply any organic or inorganic fertiliser.\n(6) The farmer shall not apply pesticides.\n(7) 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 spot treatment. In the case of bracken, control shall be by means of asulam or other chemical approved by the Minister.\n(8) The farmer shall ensure that in farming the land he does not damage or destroy sites occupied by ground nesting birds. In any event, he shall not roll or chain harrow such sites between 31st March and 16th July in any year.\n(9) The farmer shall obtain written advice from the Minister concerning the restoration of any damaged or derelict field walls.",
  "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/2/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."
}