Provide an attractive landscape 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
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
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
Protect and preserve scheduled monuments Do not undertake any work resulting in the demolition or destruction of, or damage to, a scheduled monument without consent
Comply with the conditions attached to any consent for work affecting a scheduled monument
Do not undertake flooding or tipping operations on land in, on or under which there is a scheduled monument without consent
Do not make alterations or additions to a scheduled monument without consent
Do not remove or repair of a scheduled monument without consent
Woodlands are protected and maintained Livestock are excluded from woodland
Do not supplementary feed or locate water troughs and mineral licks in such a way as to cause poaching on woodland
Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment
Protect and maintain traditional farm buildings 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
Maintain traditional farm buildings in a weatherproof condition
Do not convert traditional farm buildings to non-agricultural use