The Environmental Stewardship (England) Regulations 2005

PART 1 Interpretation

In this Schedule—

“beetle bank” means a linear raised earth bank in an arable field, covered in grass vegetation;

“brassica fodder crop” means a brassica crop which is grown to be grazed by livestock or cut for forage;

“buffer strip” means a strip of land adjoining a field boundary or environmental feature which is not cultivated and where the use of inputs is restricted;

“conservation headland” means an area of land within a cereal field which is adjacent to its boundary and in which the use of insecticides and herbicides is restricted;

“cultivated land” means land which is regularly cultivated by ploughing or other means;

“ditch management” means the cleaning of ditches and the management of vegetation on and adjacent to the ditch bank;

“fen” means an area of low-lying marshy ground;

“heathland” means an area of grass, shrubs and trees on acidic sandy soils;

“hedgerow management” means a cycle of cutting and trimming used to control hedgerow growth and “enhanced hedgerow management” means a more restrictive cycle of cutting and trimming;

“improved grassland” means grassland which—

(a)

has been drained, fertilised, re-seeded or otherwise managed to increase its productive capacity; and

(b)

receives more than 50 but not more than 100 kilograms per hectare of inorganic nitrogen fertiliser per year;

“in-bye” means enclosed land which is used for the production of grass in an upland area;

“in-field tree” means a tree, the trunk of which is entirely within the field and does not touch the field boundary;

“in-field pond” means a pond which is entirely within the field and does not touch the field boundary;

“inputs” means fertiliser, manures, pesticides and seed;

“intensive grassland” means grassland which receives more than 100 kilograms per hectare of inorganic nitrogen fertiliser per year;

[F1 “native breed at risk” means a native breed of livestock, of which the number of breeding females in the United Kingdom is, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, lower than the threshold for it in Annex 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 817/2004 (laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1360/2005;]

“organic grassland” means grassland which is managed organically and which is not rotational land;

“over-wintered stubbles” means the remains of a cereal, oilseed rape, field bean or linseed crop after harvesting, retained through the winter into the following year;

“permanent grassland” means land which is used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally or through cultivation and which has not been subject to cultivation for at least five years;

“reedbeds” means an area of marshy ground on which the vegetation consists primarily of reeds;

“rotational land” means land which will successively bear different crops as the rotation progresses including grass and clover in the fertility-building phase of the rotation;

“rough grassland” means permanent grassland on which the vegetation is predominantly natural owing to the difficult terrain or other physical constraints;

“rough grazing” means grazing on rough grassland;

“rush pasture” means damp pasture where at least a third of the vegetation comprises rush species and the remainder comprises mainly grass and other herbaceous species;

“skylark plot” means an unsown, sparsely vegetated area of land in a field sown with cereals;

“successional” means containing a range of habitat structures appropriate to the specific target species;

[F1 “traditional farm building” means a building or part of a building constructed for a use associated with agriculture—

(a)

using traditional methods and materials, or

(b)

which is, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, of historic or landscape interest;]

“whole crop silage” means a crop which is harvested to make silage for feeding to livestock.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 inserted (30.4.2006) by The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(2)