{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-designation-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-designation-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2034",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Test Valley) Designation Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmentally-sensitive-areas-test-valley-designation-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As regards any grassland which is the subject of an agreement—\n(1) The farmer shall maintain grassland and shall not plough, level or re-seed. The farmer shall not cultivate between 31st March and 16th June in any year. Outside this period he shall cultivate only by chain harrow or roller.\n(2) Between 30th April and 1st September in any year the farmer shall graze with cattle or sheep at an average stocking rate not exceeding 1.5 livestock units and not less than 0.7 livestock units per hectare and in any event not so as to cause poaching, undergrazing or overgrazing at any time of the year.\n(3) The farmer shall not top the sward or mow for hay or silage before 16th June 2n any year.\n(4) Where the farmer cuts grass for hay or silage he shall wilt and turn the silage before removal and graze the aftermath with livestock.\n(5) The farmer shall not apply any inorganic fertiliser.\n(6) The farmer shall not increase existing application rates of organic fertiliser and shall not in any event apply more than 2.5 tonnes of farmyard manure per hectare per annum.\n(7) The farmer shall not apply pig or poultry manure.\n(8) The farmer shall not apply pesticides.\n(9) The farmer shall not apply herbicides except to control nettles, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broadleaved dock or ragwort, or for the stump treatment of cleared scrub. Herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by weed wiper or by spot treatment.\n(10) The farmer shall not apply lime, slag or any substance to reduce the acidity of the soil.\n(11) The farmer shall restrict supplementary feeding of livestock to areas agreed in advance with the Minister.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2034/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:00.719335+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."
}