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How to allow someone to act on your behalf in the Rural Payments Service
Watch our short video that explains how to add people to your business and update their permissions level on the Rural Payment service.
https://youtu.be/lYr-OuK9WWQ
Countryside Stewardship
Have you requested your Countryside Stewardship application pack yet?
Request your application pack now and give yourself plenty of time to submit your application. Whether applying for a Higher Tier or Mid Tier agreement, make sure you request your application pack before the deadlines shown below. Dates for applications …
Dates for your diary
The ‘Key dates: Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES)’ timeline is now available on GOV.UK It shows you important dates in 2019 for all three schemes (BPS, CS and ES), ahead of the full …
Why you should follow the Cross Compliance rules
You can read the results from cross compliance inspections in 2017 on GOV.UK. They show the reasons why farmers failed to meet each Statutory Management Requirement (SMR) and Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (GAEC). We publish these results each year …
Notifying you about digital mapping updates
We’ve been making updates to digital maps using the latest information available to us, including aerial photography and Ordnance Survey map updates. If your digital maps have been updated using this information – this does not include land changes that …
Save the date(s)
The ‘Key Dates for BPS’ timeline is now available on GOV.UK. This shows important dates in the 2018 BPS scheme year, ahead of the full scheme rules being published on 13 March. We have also included some of the things …
We're Back!
It’s been a few years since we posted on our last blog, however we thought now is the right time to bring back the blog and let you know how we are going to be using it. We want to …
'Top Tips' for completing a Countryside Stewardship application form
If you have applied for a Mid-Tier Application pack, the closing date for submitting it together with all supporting evidence is Friday 30th September 2016. To help ensure that Natural England can process your CS application as quickly and accurately as …
Thinking of applying for CS? Attend a local training event now
Natural England is running a range of local training events for those thinking of applying for the Mid Tier of Countryside Stewardship.
Countryside Stewardship - information for land agents and Mid Tier applicants
Natural England has recorded two live interactive presentations, aimed at land agents, on the Mid Tier of the Countryside Stewardship scheme. The first presentation covers the Mid-Tier Wild Pollinator and Farm Wildlife Package within Countryside Stewardship. It includes an introduction …