SCHEDULEACTIVITIES FOR WHICH POINTS MAY BE OBTAINED

Regulation 5(2)(b)

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Activity

Points per unit

Field boundaries, trees and woodlands—1

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—2

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—3

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—4

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—5

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—6

Management of high erosion risk cultivated land

15 per hectare

Encouragement of diversity of crop types—7

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—8

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—9

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—10

Unenclosed moorland rough grazing

8 per hectare

Preparation of land management plans—11

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

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.