Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Plants - improve habitat and management		Provide beneficial management for rare arable plants		Create 6m uncropped cultivated margins on arable land
		Hedgerows are protected and enhanced		Hedgerows are not trimmed during the bird nesting season
				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
				Hedges should have a mixture of heights and widths
				Hedges should be maintained to a height which is customary to the local landscape (but no less than 1.5 m)
				Do not trim hedges more than once every two or three years
				Avoid cutting all hedges on a farm in the same year
				Remove hedgerows
				Hedgerows are not removed (without permission)
				Habitats are not damaged by cultivation		Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment
				Hedgerows are trimmed more often than every two or three years
		Stone walls are protected and enhanced		Retain and maintain stone walls		Remove stone walls
				Stone walls are maintained using traditional materials and following the style characteristic to the local landscape
		Minimise disturbance to wildlife habitats		Hedgerows are not trimmed during the bird nesting season
				Heather and grass moorland are burnt outside the burning season
				Heather and grass moorland are not burnt outside the burning season
				Do not cut ditch banks more than once every two or three years
				Ditches are not moved or re-profiled
				Only one side of a ditch is cleared in any single year
				Ditches are not cleared during the bird nesting season
				Hedgerows are trimmed more often than every two or three years
		Protect and enhance important habitats that contain natural or semi-natural vegetation		Reduced poaching by livestock		Regularly change the position of supplementary feeders
						Reduce overflows from livestock water troughs		Ball-valves on livestock water troughs are damaged and/or not correctly set
								Ensure ball-valves on livestock water troughs are not damaged and are correctly set
						Avoid unsuitable supplementary feeding
						Reduce livestock stocking rates
				Do not undertake any project (to increase the productivity of land) on uncultivated land or semi-natural areas without permission
				Valuable trees are protected		Protected trees are not cut down (without permission)
						Valuable trees are felled and removed
						Protect ancient trees in intensively-managed grass fields		Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees
								Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees
								Do not carry out supplementary feeding of stock under the canopy of in-field trees
						Protect ancient trees in arable fields		Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees
								Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees
				Natural and semi-natural vegetation is not overgrazed		Reduce livestock stocking rates
		Protect, manage and maintain Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)		Intentionally or recklessly destroy or damage any of the special interest features of an SSSI
				Obtain consent before starting or permitting any specified operation on an SSSI
				Comply with all SSSI management notices
		Create, extend or enhance riparian vegetation		Dredging or spoil must be levelled along the bank and the bankside vegetation re-established by natural regeneration
				Dredging or spoil is not levelled along the bank and the bankside vegetation is destroyed
		Encourage a diversity of sward structure and species in grassland		Mixed stocking
		Stone faced hedge banks are protected and enhanced		Retain and maintain stone faced hedge banks
				Prevent damage to stone-faced gateways and banks by machinery
				Prevent damage to stone-faced gateways and banks by livestock
				Do not cast up ditch dredging or spoil over stone-faced banks
				Stone faced hedge banks are maintained using traditional materials and following the style characteristic to the local landscape