Provides rural employment |
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Increase farm labour |
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Market produce locally |
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Process produce locally |
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Increase/maintain tourists/visitors to the area |
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Provide an attractive landscape |
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Stone walls are protected and enhanced |
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Retain and maintain stone walls |
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Remove stone walls |
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Stone walls are maintained using traditional materials and following the style characteristic to the local landscape |
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Protect and maintain traditional farm buildings |
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Carry out maintenance works and minor repairs to traditional farm buildings on a like for like basis using traditional materials and methods, to retain the character of the building in its local setting |
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Maintain traditional farm buildings in a weatherproof condition |
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Do not convert traditional farm buildings to non-agricultural use |
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Woodlands are protected and maintained |
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Livestock are excluded from woodland |
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Do not supplementary feed or locate water troughs and mineral licks in such a way as to cause poaching on woodland |
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Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment |
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Protect and preserve scheduled monuments |
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Do not undertake any work resulting in the demolition or destruction of, or damage to, a scheduled monument without consent |
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Comply with the conditions attached to any consent for work affecting a scheduled monument |
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Do not undertake flooding or tipping operations on land in, on or under which there is a scheduled monument without consent |
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Do not make alterations or additions to a scheduled monument without consent |
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Do not remove or repair of a scheduled monument without consent |
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Valuable trees are protected |
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Protected trees are not cut down (without permission) |
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Valuable trees are felled and removed |
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Protect ancient trees in intensively-managed grass fields |
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Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not carry out supplementary feeding of stock under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Protect ancient trees in arable fields |
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Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees |
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Hedgerows are protected and enhanced |
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Hedgerows are not trimmed during the bird nesting season |
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Allow saplings to grow into hedgerow trees at intervals (e.g. 4 trees randomly spaced over 200 m) where this fits in with the local landscape character |
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Hedges should have a mixture of heights and widths |
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Hedges should be maintained to a height which is customary to the local landscape (but no less than 1.5 m) |
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Do not trim hedges more than once every two or three years |
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Avoid cutting all hedges on a farm in the same year |
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Remove hedgerows |
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Hedgerows are not removed (without permission) |
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Habitats are not damaged by cultivation |
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Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment |
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Hedgerows are trimmed more often than every two or three years |
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Maintain/improve countryside access |
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The condition of public rights of way is improved or maintained |
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Arable land is left with a rough surface following operations such as ploughing, discing or tine cultivation |
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Cross-field paths are not reinstated after they are disturbed by agricultural activities |
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Public rights of way, and related structures, are not maintained |
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Reinstate cross-field paths where they are disturbed by agricultural activities such as ploughing |
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Maintain public rights of way, including structures such as stiles and gates |
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Proactively engage with local authorities/community on access issues |
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Improve access for disabled people |
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Minimise risks to public from livestock |
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Do not to run a bull with cows in open countryside or in fields crossed by routes to open countryside |
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Aggressive cows are not identified and/or removed from grazing in popular access areas |
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Bulls are run with cows in open countryside or in fields crossed by routes to open countryside |
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Use signs to raise the awareness of visitors to any general risks they may face in the vicinity of livestock |
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Identify particularly aggressive cows and avoid grazing them in popular access areas |
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Participate in farm open days |
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Block public rights of way |
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Provide signs and positive information about where people can go |
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Create new access points |