The Hedgerows Regulations 1997 No. 1160

Prospective

SCHEDULE 1 E+W ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING “IMPORTANT” HEDGEROWS

PART II E+W CRITERIA

Archaeology and history E+W

5.  The hedgerow—

(a) is recorded in a document held at the relevant date at a Record Office as an integral part of a field system pre-dating the Inclosure Acts(1); or

(b) is part of, or visibly related to, any building or other feature associated with such a system, and that system—

(i) is substantially complete; or

(ii) is of a pattern which is recorded in a document prepared before the relevant date by a local planning authority, within the meaning of the 1990 Act(2), for the purposes of development control within the authority’s area, as a key landscape characteristic.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 1.6.1997, see reg. 1

(1)

See the Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14).

(2)

See section 1 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).