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The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage IV) Designation Order 2000

Environmentally Sensitive Areas

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AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND

Section 18 of the Agriculture Act 1986 (“the 1986 Act”) gives the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (“the Minister”) power to designate areas in England as environmentally sensitive areas where it appears to him particularly desirable to conserve, protect or enhance environmental features in those areas by the maintenance or adoption of particular agricultural methods.

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1Title and commencement

2Interpretation

3Designation of Stage IV environmentally sensitive areas

4Matters in respect of which payments may be made

5Rates of payment

6Revocation of existing legislation and saving

SCHEDULE 1BLACKDOWN HILLS

PART 1DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

PART 2CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

PART 3MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

PART 4DEFINITIONS

SCHEDULE 2COTSWOLD HILLS

PART 1DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

PART 2CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

PART 3MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

PART 4DEFINITIONS

SCHEDULE 3DARTMOOR

PART 1DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

PART 2CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

PART 3MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

PART 4DEFINITIONS

SCHEDULE 4ESSEX COAST

PART 1DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

PART 2CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

PART 3MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

PART 4DEFINITIONS

SCHEDULE 5SHROPSHIRE HILLS

PART 1DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

PART 2CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

PART 3MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

PART 4DEFINITIONS

SCHEDULE 6UPPER THAMES TRIBUTARIES

PART 1DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA

PART 2CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

PART 3MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

PART 4DEFINITIONS

SCHEDULE 7ORDERS REVOKED

Blackdown Hills Environmentally Sensitive Area

Cotswold Hills Environmentally Sensitive Area

The Dartmoor Environmentally Sensitive Area

The Essex Coast Environmentally Sensitive Area

The Shropshire Hills Environmentally Sensitive Area

The Upper Thames Tributaries Environmentally Sensitive Area

2000 No. 3052

AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage IV) Designation Order 2000

Made13th November 2000

Laid before Parliament14th November 2000

Coming into force5th December 2000

Whereas, as mentioned in section 18(1) of the Agriculture Act 19861, it appears to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (“the Minister”) that it is particularly desirable—

to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the areas referred to in Part 1 of Schedules 1 to 6 to the following Order;

to conserve the flora and fauna and geological and physiographical features of those areas; and

to protect buildings and other objects of historic interest in those areas;

And whereas, as mentioned in the said section 18(1), it appears to the Minister that the maintenance or adoption of the agricultural methods specified in Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 (as the case may be) to the following Order are likely to facilitate the aforementioned conservation, enhancement and protection;

Now, therefore, the Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1) and 4(d)2 of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with the Secretary of State, the Countryside Agency and the Nature Conservancy Council for England3 as to the inclusion of the areas referred to in article 3 of the following Order and the features of those areas for which conservation, enhancement and protection are desirable, hereby makes the following Order: