The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Designation Order 2000

articles 2(1) and(3), 3 and 5(1)

SCHEDULE 3 NORTH PEAK

PART 1 DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

The area of land in the North Peak district in the counties of Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire which is shown coloured yellow on the maps contained in the volume of maps marked “Volume of maps of the North Peak environmentally sensitive area” dated 6th November 2000, signed on behalf of the Minister by the Parliamentary Secretary and deposited at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.

PART 2 CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

• The planting, laying and gapping up of hedges.

• The creation or restoration of ponds and the restoration of wet areas.

• The supplementary treatment of suppressed or eroded heather moorland.

• The control of bracken.

• The renovation of farm buildings using traditional materials.

• Works to protect historic and archaeological features.

• The creation or restoration of flower-rich meadowland.

• The management of scrub.

• The restoration of drystone walls.

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

• Protection or provision of hedgerow trees and other saplings.

• Fencing associated with the exclusion of stock from woodland.

• Other works for the restoration or enhancement of wildlife habitats.

PART 3 MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Column 1	Column 2
Activity	Maximum rate in £ per hectare of land per annum (except where otherwise stated)
1.  Maintenance of cultivated land.	15
2.  Management of semi-improved permanent grassland.	55
3.  Management of unimproved permanent grassland, including control of stocking levels.	45
4.  Management of enclosed rough grazing including restrictions on stocking levels.	40
5.  Where management of any kind referred to in item 3 or 4 above is undertaken, additional management so as to conserve meadowland.	80
6.  Where management of any kind referred to in item 3, 4 or 5 above is undertaken, additional management so as to create wet areas.	80
7.  As regards moorland— (a) maintenance of moorland	25
(b) extensive grazing of moorland	45
(c) total stock exclosure from moorland areas.	90
8.  In relation to woodland— (a) maintenance of existing woodland	15
(b) management of woodland to enhance its nature conservation and landscape value.	120
9.  The provision of public access routes.	170
10  Hedgerow restoration.	£4 per metre
11.  Wall restoration.	£16 per metre
12.  Management of unimproved grassland and enclosed rough grazing.	45

PART 4 DEFINITIONS

In this Schedule:

“heather” means common heather (calluna vulgaris), and includes common heather growing in association with other ericaceous dwarf shrub species;

“meadowland” means grassland primarily used for the production of hay or silage;

“moorland” means land covered by semi-natural upland vegetation which is generally unenclosed except along ownership boundaries;

“rough grazing” means land covered by semi-natural vegetation;

“semi-improved grassland” means permanent grassland which receives only small amounts of inorganic fertilizer and has not been regularly cultivated or reseeded;

“unimproved grassland” means grassland which has not been regularly ploughed, levelled, drained or reseeded or treated with fertilizers, lime, slag, herbicides or pesticides.