Paragraph 5 Archaeology and historyI1

England and Wales

The hedgerow—

(a)

is recorded in a document held at the relevant date at a Record Office as an integral part of a field system pre-dating the Inclosure Acts^f1; or

(b)

is part of, or visibly related to, any building or other feature associated with such a system, and that system—

(i)

is substantially complete; or

(ii)

is of a pattern which is recorded in a document prepared before the relevant date by a local planning authority, within the meaning of the 1990 Act^f2, for the purposes of development control within the authority’s area, as a key landscape characteristic.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.6.1997, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: See the Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14).
f2: See section 1 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).