Lackham Farm - Schedule 5.2 Livestock control

Livestock Control - Work Codes

FW - Post and wire fencing
FSH - Sheep fencing
FR - Rabbit fencing
FD - Deer fencing
GF - Field gates
GR - River gate
FWB - Post and wire fencing to protect newly restored boundaries
FSB - Sheep fencing to protect newly restored boundaries
FRB - Rabbit or sheep netting to protect newly restored boundaries

All types of fencing must be erected to the standard required to control livestock for the duration of your agreement. Before erecting new fencing, all old fencing material must be removed. New fencing must be put up in straight lines, between strainer posts. Strainer posts must be used at each end of the fence and at each corner and turning point. They may also be necessary where there is a significant difference in gradient.

All timber must be fully peeled and tanalised or treated with an approved preservative. Square or half round section timber can be used as an alternative to the round sections given below. Timber sizes quoted are minimum requirements.

If possible, barbed wire should not be used where fencing runs alongside access routes.

Post and wire fencing

Wire fencing shall not be less than 1.05 metres high constructed using galvanised 4
mm mild steel plain or 2.5 mm barbed wire, or equivalent.
Straining posts should not be less than 125 mm top diameter, 2.1 metres long at a spacing not exceeding 150 metres.
Struts shall be 65 mm top diameter, 2.1 metres long and notched into the straining post.

Intermediate posts shall be 65 mm top diameter, 1.7 metres long and at a spacing not exceeding 3.5 metres.

Sheep fencing

Wire must be woven wire and galvanised (BS 1722). The fence must be not less than 1.05 metres high. If extra height is required, this should be obtained by fixing additional strands of plain or barbed wire.
Straining posts must not be less than 125 mm top diameter, or 100 mm x 100 mm cross section sawn, 2.15 metres long if not set in concrete, or 1.85 metres if in concrete, at a spacing not exceeding 150 metres where mild steel line wire is used, or not exceeding 300 metres for high tensile wire.
Struts must not be less than 80 mm top diameter, or 75 mm x 75 mm if sawn, 1.9 metres long if not set in concrete and at least 1.6 metres where set in concrete, and notched into the straining post at an angle of no greater than 45 degrees.
Intermediate posts must be 65 mm top diameter, or 75 mm x 75 mm if sawn, 1.7 metres long, at a spacing not exceeding 3.5 metres.

Rabbit fencing

Galvanised wire netting, not less than 1.05 metres wide with a mesh no larger than 31 mm.
Top edge of the netting must be not less than 0.75 metres above ground level.
The netting must be fastened to a 4 mm top wire using galvanised netting rings.
The bottom edge of the netting must either be buried in the ground 150 mm and or turned outwards 150 mm and anchored.
Post sizes and spacing as for stock fencing

Deer fencing

Mild steel line wire with woven wire
Woven wire netting not less than 1.85 metres high. The netting is not stapled to posts, but attached to line wires with lashing rods at approximately 2 metre intervals.
Line wire shall be galvanised, 4 mm mild steel or 3.15 mm high-tensile steel, barbed wire must not be used.
Straining posts shall be 150 mm top diameter round timber, 2.8 metres long buried at least 0.95 metres.
Straining posts must not exceed 200 metres apart.