The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage I) Designation Order 2000

Made: 13th November 2000

Laid before Parliament: 14th November 2000

Coming into force: 5th December 2000

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Title and commencement

1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Interpretation

2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Designation of Stage I environmentally sensitive areas

3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Matters in respect of which payments may be made

4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rates of payment

5

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Revocation of existing legislation

6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SCHEDULE 1 — THE BROADS

PART 1 — DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 2 — CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 3 — MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

1

Management of permanent grassland.

2

Management of extensive permanent grassland.

3

Management of wet grassland.

4

Where management of any kind referred to in item 2 or 3 is undertaken, additional management for the purpose of bringing about high water levels.

5

Management of fen land.

6

In relation to arable land—

• (a) reversion to permanent grassland

7

The provision of public access routes.

PART 4 — DEFINITIONS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SCHEDULE 2 — PENNINE DALES

PART 1 — DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 2 — CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 3 — MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

1

Management of arable and improved grassland.

2

Management of meadowland.

3

Management of other grassland.

4

Management of herb-rich meadowland.

5

Management of herb-rich pastures and allotments.

6

Management of woodland to enhance its nature conservation and landscape value.

7

The provision of public access routes.

8

Drystone wall renovation.

PART 4 — DEFINITIONS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SCHEDULE 3 — SOMERSET LEVELS AND MOORS

PART 1 — DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 2 — CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 3 — MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

1

Management of permanent grassland.

2

Management of extensive permanent grassland.

3

Management of wet permanent grassland.

4

Management of permanent grassland raised water level areas.

5

Creation and management of buffer strips.

6

Maintenance of summer penning level on peat soils.

7

Maintenance of raised water level.

8

Provision of public access routes.

PART 4 — DEFINITIONS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SCHEDULE 4 — SOUTH DOWNS

PART 1 — DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 2 — CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 3 — MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

1

Management of permanent grassland on chalk.

2

Management of permanent grassland in the river valleys.

3

Reversion of arable land to chalk grassland.

4

Reversion of arable land to permanent grassland.

5

Provision of winter stubbles with undersowing.

6

Provision of winter stubbles without undersowing.

7

Creation and management of conservation headlands.

8

Provision of public access routes.

PART 4 — DEFINITIONS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SCHEDULE 5 — WEST PENWITH

PART 1 — DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 2 — CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART 3 — MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

1

Management of all land under agreement.

2

Maintenance of field margins.

3

Provision of winter stubbles.

4

Provision of public access routes.

PART 4 — DEFINITIONS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SCHEDULE 6 — ORDERS REVOKED

The Broads Environmentally Sensitive Area

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (The Broads) Designation Order 1997

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (The Broads) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998

Pennine Dales Environmentally Sensitive Area

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Pennine Dales) Designation Order 1997

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Pennine Dales) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998

The Somerset Levels and Moors Environmentally Sensitive Area

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation Order 1997

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Somerset Levels and Moors) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998

The South Downs Environmentally Sensitive Area

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South Downs) Designation Order 1997

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (South Downs) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998

The West Penwith Environmentally Sensitive Area

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (West Penwith) Designation Order 1997

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (West Penwith) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998

• The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (West Penwith) Designation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1998

Signed

Elliot Morley — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 9th November 2000

We consent,

Jim Dowd and Clive Betts — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 13 November 2000

Explanatory note

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 49. The expression “the Minister” is defined in section 18(11).

[^f00002]: Section 18(4) was amended by S.I. 1994/249.

[^f00003]: The provisions in section 18 of the Agriculture Act 1986 concerning Nature Conservancy Councils were amended by Part VII of, and Schedule 9 to, the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43).

[^f00004]: S.I. 1997/1440.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1998/1299.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1997/1441.

[^f00007]: S.I. 1998/1300.

[^f00008]: S.I. 1997/1442.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1998/1298.

[^f00010]: S.I. 1997/1443.

[^f00011]: S.I. 1998/1297.

[^f00012]: S.I. 1997/1444.

[^f00013]: S.I. 1998/1296.

[^f00014]: S.I. 1998/2232.

Editorial notes

[^key-8dab676964d5c7d66287629fb7e454b3]: Order revoked (1.1.2024) by Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28), ss. 1(1), 22(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 (with s. 1(3)(4)); S.I. 2023/1363, reg. 2 [Editorial note: No historical revised versions have been created for amendments to this S.I. made prior to its final revocation. A revised version of how the S.I. stood at its first commencement is available and, to see the document content as it originally stood when it was made, select the 'Original (As Made)' version. For further details of the amendments see the List of All Changes available in 'More Resources']

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .