The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Upper Thames Tributaries) Designation (Amendment) Order 1999

Article 8

SCHEDULE 1

Articles 2(1) and 5(1)

“SCHEDULE 1 CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

• The planting, laying, coppicing and gapping-up of hedges.

• The creation or restoration of ponds.

• The construction of water-penning structures or other works designed to control water levels.

• The provision of fencing and water supplies associated with the re-introduction of livestock for grazing.

• The restoration of ditches, fen habitats and reedbeds.

• The restoration of stone walls.

• The restoration of farm buildings using traditional materials.

• Works to protect historic and archaeological features.

• The re-introduction of pollarding management.

• The creation or improvement of herb-rich grassland.

• Works to protect historic and archaeological features.

• The provision or restoration of gates, stiles and footbridges where an agreement includes requirements as to public access.

• The management of scrub.

• The creation of scrapes.

• The restoration of dykes, ditches, gutters and footdrains.

• The provision of silt traps in water courses.

• Diverse seed mix for arable reversion.

• Fencing to protect habitats.

• Other works associated with habitat restoration or enhancement.”

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Article 9

SCHEDULE 2

Articles 2(1) and 5(1)

“SCHEDULE 2 MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Column 1		Column 2
Activity Part I		Maximum rate in £ per hectare of land per annum (except where otherwise stated)
1.	Maintenance of permanent grassland	30
2.	Where management of the kind referred to in item 1 above is undertaken, additional management for the purpose of prohibiting the application of fertiliser within 6 metres of any field boundary	20
3.	Where management of the kind referred to in item 1 above is undertaken, additional management for the purposes of enhancing biodiversity through the exclusion of livestock	50
4.	Management of extensive permanent grassland	105
5.	Where management of the kind referred to in item 4 above is undertaken, additional management so as to conserve meadowland	55
6.	Management of wet grassland	270
7.	In relation to cultivated land: (a) reversion of cultivated land to extensive permanent grassland	290
	(b) reversion of cultivated land to wet grassland	435
	(c) the creation and management of arable margin buffer strips	400
8.	Hedgerow restoration	£7 per metre
9.	The provision of public access routes	170

Column 1		Column 2
Activity Part II		Maximum rate in £ per hectare of land per annum
1.	Management of wet grassland	155
2.	Reversion of cultivated land to wet grassland	330”