The Countryside Premium Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1997

Regulation 8(1)

SCHEDULE 4 MAXIMUM PAYMENT RATES FOR ACTIVITIES

PART I MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

	Column 1	Column 2
	Activity	Maximum payment rate
1.	Management of grassland for birds	£125 per hectare per annum.
2.	Management of species-rich grassland	£80 per hectare per annum.
3.	Creation of species-rich grassland	£250 per hectare per annum.
4.	Management of wetland	£80 per hectare per annum.
5.	Creation of wetland	£250 per hectare per annum.
6.	Management of water margin	£100 per 0.25 hectare per annum.
7.	Management of flood plain	£25 per hectare per annum.
8.	Management of coastal heath	£80 per hectare per annum.
9.	Stock disposal	Subject to Part IV of this Schedule £35 per ewe per annum for each ewe removed from the flock including, where the undertaking is in substitution for an undertaking under the Heather Moorland (Livestock Extensification) Regulations 1995, any ewe removed prior to such substitution in respect of the undertaking under those Regulations.
10.	Muirburn	£5 per hectare per annum for the area of moorland identified for burning.
11.	Creation of grass margin or beetlebank	£184 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof per annum.
12.	Creation of conservation headland	£100 per hectare per annum.
13.	Introduction or retention of extensive cropping	£120 per hectare per annum.
14.	Management of cropped machair	£140 per hectare per annum or, where cultivation is combined with the traditional application of seaweed and dung, £220 per hectare.
15.	Creation of extended hedge	£125 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof per annum.
16.	Management of scrub	£55 per hectare per annum.
17.	Provision of access	Where the site comprises a 10 metre wide strip £170 per hectare per annum or, in the case of set aside land, £90 per hectare per annum; or Where the site comprises all or part of a field, £50 per hectare per annum; or, in the case of set aside land, £45 per hectare per annum.
18.	Management of a site of archaeological or historic interest	£80 per 0.25 hectares per annum or part thereof up to 1.5 hectares and £20 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof thereafter.

PART II CAPITAL ACTIVITIES

	Column 1	Column 2
	Activity	Maximum payment rate
1.	Bracken control	£100 per hectare.
2.	Erection of– a. stock fence	£2.50 per metre.
	b. Scare, temporary or rabbit fence	£1.25 per metre.
	c. deer fence	£5.50 per metre.
	d. gate and posts	£20 per metre.
	e. single stile	£20 per stile.
	f. double stile	£40 stile.
	g. footbridge	£125 per footbridge.
3.	Building or restoration of traditional stone dyke or wall	£9 per square metre.
4.	Restoration of vernacular building	50% of the cost approved by the Secretary of State.
5.	Amenity tree planting	£1 per tree (maximum 250 trees per 0.25 hectare).
6.	a. Tree guard and stake	£1 per tree guard and stake.
	b. Self-supporting tree guard	35 pence per tree guard.
7.	Planting of marram grass	£4 per square metre.
8.	Water trough	£100 per trough.
9.	Planting, replanting, coppicing or laying of a hedge	£3 per metre.
10.	Creation or restoration of a pond	£2 per square metre up to 100 square metres and £1 per square metre thereafter.
11.	Sowing of species-rich grassland	£300 per hectare.
12.	Sand blow fencing	£7 per metre.

PART III ADVICE

	Column 1	Column 2
	Activity	Maximum payment
1.	Conservation audit	£375.
2.	Moorland management plan	£500.

PART IV

1.  Where an undertaking includes stock disposal, payments for that activity shall not exceed £7,000 per annum or in the case of a common grazings committee £10,000 per annum or, in either case, such lower sum as may be determined in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

2.  Where the undertaking is at the commencement of any year thereof a subsequent undertaking, the sum specified in paragraph 1 in relation to the undertaking shall be reduced to the extent that the amount mentioned in paragraph 3 relates to the same year.

3.  The amount referred to in paragraph 2 of this Part is the amount of grant payable in respect of stock disposal, including any amount already paid, under these Regulations to the applicant, or to any person who together with the applicant is a farmer for the purposes of IACS, in respect of any prior undertaking.

4.  For the purposes of this Part an undertaking is a subsequent undertaking if it is a subsequent undertaking for the purposes of regulation 8 and an undertaking is a prior undertaking if it is a prior undertaking for those purposes.

5.  Where an undertaking is deemed to have, for the purposes of regulation 8, a date of commencement earlier than another undertaking it shall be so deemed also for the purposes of this Part.

6.  Where regulation 8(8) applies, the Secretary of State shall review the sum specified in paragraph 1, or such lower sum as is determined after application of the provisions of this Part, including the prior application of this paragraph, in relation to an undertaking and shall reduce such sum to the extent that payment of it would result in the applicant or any person mentioned in paragraph 3 receiving grant under these Regulations which he would not have received had the applicant been the applicant at the commencement of the year or been established as being a person who together with others was a farmer for the purposes of IACS at that date.

7.  The provisions of this Part shall not apply to an undertaking which is in substitution for an undertaking under the Heather Moorland (Livestock Extensification) Regulations 1995.