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The Hedgerows Regulations 1997

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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.

(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).

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