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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 7530893" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>I was thinking about this issue the other day and I think people are being blinded by a 'It was in a scheme, but the scheme has ended so I can do what I like' mindset. The point about EIA legislation is that land falls under it regardless of whether the habitat was created on purpose by a scheme, on purpose voluntarily, or indeed accidentally. </p><p></p><p>After all, if you went out and created a wildflower rich meadow out of an arable field off your own bat then it would eventually fall under EIA legislation and you'd never be able to plough it up again. We know this - arable land becomes temporary grassland, which becomes permanent grassland, and if you don't 'cultivate' your permanent grassland with fertiliser and chemicals for long enough it would eventually fail an EIA test to revert to arable. That can happen regardless of whether one is being paid to manage the land in any given way. It could happen because of active decisions made, or purely by accident. </p><p></p><p>So the 'It was in a scheme' argument is irrelevant. All that matters are the conditions on the ground and the actions the land manager has taken over the last X years. The reason for those actions doesn't matter. So if you join a long term environmental scheme that has the specific aim of increasing the habitat value of the land then there is a significant risk that your actions will eventually result in the land failing an EIA test.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 7530893, member: 818"] I was thinking about this issue the other day and I think people are being blinded by a 'It was in a scheme, but the scheme has ended so I can do what I like' mindset. The point about EIA legislation is that land falls under it regardless of whether the habitat was created on purpose by a scheme, on purpose voluntarily, or indeed accidentally. After all, if you went out and created a wildflower rich meadow out of an arable field off your own bat then it would eventually fall under EIA legislation and you'd never be able to plough it up again. We know this - arable land becomes temporary grassland, which becomes permanent grassland, and if you don't 'cultivate' your permanent grassland with fertiliser and chemicals for long enough it would eventually fail an EIA test to revert to arable. That can happen regardless of whether one is being paid to manage the land in any given way. It could happen because of active decisions made, or purely by accident. So the 'It was in a scheme' argument is irrelevant. All that matters are the conditions on the ground and the actions the land manager has taken over the last X years. The reason for those actions doesn't matter. So if you join a long term environmental scheme that has the specific aim of increasing the habitat value of the land then there is a significant risk that your actions will eventually result in the land failing an EIA test. [/QUOTE]
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