{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/457",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-north-peak-designation-order-1993",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "All land",
  "text": "As regards all land which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) the farmer shall maintain any stockproof hedges for which he is responsible in a stockproof condition using traditional methods;\n(2) the farmer shall maintain any weatherproof traditional farm buildings for which he is responsible in a weatherproof condition using traditional styles and materials;\n(3) the farmer shall not damage or destroy any feature of historic or archaeological interest;\n(4) the farmer shall not install any new drainage system or modify any existing drainage system so as to bring about improved drainage;\n(5) the farmer shall dispose of sheep dip safely and shall not spread it where it may affect areas of nature conservation value;\n(6) the farmer shall not apply fungicides or insecticides;\n(7) the farmer shall graze with livestock, but not so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;\n(8) the farmer shall not remove any, or any part of, walls, hedges or banks;\n(9) the farmer shall maintain stockproof walls in a stockproof condition using traditional methods and materials;\n(10) the farmer shall not fill in hollows or depressions;\n(11) the farmer shall carry out any necessary bracken control in accordance with a programme agreed in advance in writing with the Minister;\n(12) the farmer shall carry out any necessary scrub control in accordance with a programme agreed in advance in writing with the Minister;\n(13) the farmer shall not apply herbicides except to control nettles, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broadleaved dock, ragwort or bracken or to carry out stump treatment of cleared scrub. Herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by wick applicator or by spot treatment. In the case of bracken, control shall be by means of asulam where it cannot be controlled by mechanical means;\n(14) subject to paragraph 2(5) and 3(7) below, the farmer shall not increase existing application rates of organic or inorganic fertiliser and in any event shall not apply more than 100 kilogrammes of nitrogen per hectare per annum.He shall not apply pig or poultry manure and shall only apply farmyard manure or slurry produced on his own farm.He shall not apply organic fertiliser within 50 metres of any spring, well or borehole that supplies water for human consumption, or within 10 metres of any watercourse;\n(15) the farmer shall not increase existing application rates of lime, slag or any other substance designed to reduce the acidity of the soil;\n(16) within two years from the start of the agreement, the farmer shall obtain from a person approved by the Minister written advice on the management of existing woodland or on proposals to plant new woodland, unless such advice was obtained under a previous agreement relating to the same land;\n(17) the farmer shall retain and manage field, hedgerow and streamside trees;\n(18) the farmer shall retain and manage any broadleaved woodland, copses or groups of trees, and scrub;\n(19) the farmer shall retain and manage ponds;\n(20) the farmer shall not increase the area of cultivated land (including ley grassland which has been established for less than five years) beyond that in existence on 31st August 1992;\n(21) 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 operations 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. 1987/1813. The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1991/2805."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1303",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (North Peak) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/457/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:49.027959+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."
}