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Regulation 5(2)(b)
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Activity | Points per unit |
In this Schedule— “beetle bank” means a linear raised earth bank in a field, covered in grass vegetation; “brassica fodder crop” means a brassica crop grown in order to be grazed by livestock or cut for forage; “buffer strip” means a strip of land adjoining a field boundary or environmental feature which is not cultivated and which does not receive inputs; “conservation headland” means an area bordering land planted with a cereal crop that receives no insecticides in the spring or summer and where the use of herbicides is restricted; “cultivated land” means land which is regularly cultivated by ploughing or other means; “ditch management” means the cleaning of ditches and the management of vegetation on and adjacent to the ditch bank; “grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass and other herbaceous species; “hedgerow management” means a cycle of cutting and trimming used to control hedgerow growth and “enhanced hedgerow management” means a more restricted cycle of cutting and trimming; “in-field tree” means a tree, the trunk of which is entirely within the field and does not touch the field boundary; “inputs” means fertilisers, manures, pesticides and seed; “over-wintered stubbles” means the remains of a cereal, oilseed rape, field bean or linseed crop after harvesting, retained through the winter into the following year; “permanent grassland” means grassland which has not been subject to cultivation for at least five years and is maintained with a cover of vegetation dominated by grass and other herbaceous species; “pollen and nectar flower mixture” means the sowing and management of a mixture of pollen and nectar rich plants; “rough grazing” means grazing on permanent grassland on which the vegetation is predominantly natural owing to the difficult terrain or other physical constraints; “rush pasture” means damp pasture where at least a third of the vegetation comprises rush species and the remainder comprises mainly of grass and other herbaceous species; “skylark plot” means an unsown, sparsely vegetated area of land in a field sown with cereals; “undersown spring cereals” means a spring-sown crop which is undersown with a mixture of seeds of grass and legume species; “whole crop silage” means a crop which is harvested to make silage for feeding to livestock; “wild bird seed mixture” means the sowing of a mixture of seeds of plant species that will benefit wild birds, and the management of resulting vegetation; “woodland edges” means an area where there is a change from woodland vegetation to another vegetation type. | |
Field boundaries, trees and woodlands— | |
Hedgerow management (both sides of the hedge) | 30 per 100 metres |
Hedgerow management (one side of the hedge) | 15 per 100 metres |
Enhanced hedgerow management (both sides of the hedge) | 50 per 100 metres |
Ditch management | 30 per 100 metres |
Stone wall protection and maintenance | 20 per 100 metres |
Protection of in-field trees on cultivated land | 15 per tree |
Protection of in-field trees on grassland | 10 per tree |
Maintenance of woodland fences | 4 per 100 metres |
Management of woodland edges | 13 per 100 metres |
Maintenance and management of woodland rides | 400 per hectare |
Historic and landscape features— | |
Maintenance of traditional farm buildings | 2 per square metre of floor area |
Take archaeological features out of cultivation | 50 points + 500 points per hectare |
Reduce cultivation depth | 40 per hectare |
Management of scrub on archaeological sites | 100 per hectare |
Archaeological features on grassland | 10 per hectare |
Buffer strips— | |
2 metre buffer strip on cultivated land | 10 per 100 metres |
4 metre buffer strip on cultivated land | 20 per 100 metres |
6 metre buffer strip on cultivated land | 30 per 100 metres |
2 metre uncropped cultivated margin | 10 per 100 metres |
4 metre uncropped cultivated margin | 20 per 100 metres |
6 metre uncropped cultivated margin | 30 per 100 metres |
2 metre buffer strip on intensive grassland | 10 per 100 metres |
4 metre buffer strip on intensive grassland | 20 per 100 metres |
6 metre buffer strip on intensive grassland | 30 per 100 metres |
Arable land— | |
Field corner management | 500 per hectare |
Wild bird seed mixture | 500 per hectare |
Pollen and nectar flower mixture | 500 per hectare |
Over-wintered stubbles | 70 per hectare |
Beetle banks | 12 per 100 metres |
Skylark plots | 4 per plot |
Conservation headlands in cereal fields | 80 per hectare |
Conservation headlands with no fertilisers | 220 per hectare |
Forage crops management— | |
Cereals for whole crop silage followed by over-wintered stubbles | 225 per hectare |
Brassica fodder crops followed by over-wintered stubbles | 70 per hectare |
Management of maize crops to reduce soil erosion | 15 per hectare |
Reduction of soil erosion— | |
Management of high erosion risk cultivated land | 15 per hectare |
Encouragement of diversity of crop types— | |
Undersown spring cereals | 190 per hectare |
Wild bird seed mixture in grassland areas | 500 per hectare |
Pollen and nectar flower mixture in grassland areas | 500 per hectare |
Lowland grass outside less favoured areas— | |
Maintain permanent grassland | 11 per hectare |
Take field corners out of management | 500 per hectare |
Permanent grassland with low inputs | 80 per hectare |
Permanent grassland with very low inputs | 125 per hectare |
Management of rush pastures | 10 per hectare |
Mixed stocking | 8 per hectare |
Enclosed land in less favoured areas— | |
Permanent grassland with low inputs | 55 per hectare |
Permanent grassland with very low inputs | 90 per hectare |
Field corner management | 100 per hectare |
Enclosed rough grazing | 25 per hectare |
Management of rush pastures | 8 per hectare |
Unenclosed land in less favoured areas— | |
Unenclosed moorland rough grazing | 8 per hectare |
Preparation of land management plans— | |
Soil management plan | 2 per hectare |
Nutrient management plan | 2 per hectare |
Manure management plan | 2 per hectare |
Crop protection management plan | 2 per hectare |
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