The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (The Broads) Designation Order 1992

1.  As regards any grassland which is the subject of an agreement—

(1) The farmer shall maintain grassland and shall not plough, level or reseed and shall not cultivate except with a chain harrow or roller;

(2) The farmer shall graze with cattle, sheep or horses but not so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing;

(3) The farmer shall take no more than one cut of hay or silage each year and shall graze the aftermath;

(4) The farmer shall not increase his existing application rates of inorganic fertiliser and shall not in any event apply more than 125 kilogrammes of nitrogen, 75 kilogrammes of phosphate and 75 kilogrammes of potash per hectare per year. The farmer shall use no more than 94 kilogrammes of nitrogen per hectare in any one application;

(5) The farmer shall not apply pig slurry or poultry manure and shall not increase his existing application rates of organic manure.

The farmer shall not apply farmyard manure except manure which has been produced on his own farm and shall not apply more than 30 tonnes per hectare in a year.

The farmer shall not apply cattle slurry except slurry which has been produced on his own farm and shall not apply more than 30 cubic metres per hectare at 10 per cent dry matter in a year or the equivalent if the dry matter is less than 10 per cent;

(6) The farmer shall not apply fungicides or insecticides;

(7) The farmer shall not apply herbicides except to control nettles, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, curled dock, broad-leaved dock or ragwort. Infestations of these weeds shall be controlled by cutting or by herbicides. Herbicides used for these purposes shall be applied by weed wiper or by spot treatment.