Guidance: Countryside Stewardship: Higher Tier manual for agreements starting on 1 January 2024

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Read the agreement holders guide to find out how to manage your agreement and make a claim for payment.

Higher Tier is for land that requires complex management tailored to an individual site. The main priorities are to protect and enhance the natural environment, to:

increase biodiversity
improve habitats, water quality and air quality
manage woodland areas
improve natural flood management

The scheme is competitive with funding awarded to those who will make the biggest environmental improvements in their local area and demonstrate the best value for money.

Contact Rural Payments Agency (RPA)

Email: ruralpayments@defra.gov.uk

Rural Payments Agency (CS)
PO Box 324
Worksop
S95 1DF

Published 7 February 2023
Last updated 5 August 2024 +show all updates

5 August 2024
Page moved to the agreement holder's page, and updated for agreements starting on 1 January 2024.
6 December 2023
Due to cross compliance ending, updated references in the Higher Tier grants 2023 agreement holder's guide and the applicant's guide.
2 October 2023
Payment rate for OR5 increased from 1,254 to 1,920 per ha
29 June 2023
Update to section 6.5.2 regarding dates and penalties.
30 May 2023
Payment rates updated for CS options GS5, SW10, WD4, WD11 and WD12 as rates have increased.
25 May 2023
3.12.7 Step one - inserted wording about 'reasonable attempts to help'.13.13.11 inserted new paragraph about Landscape recovery.4.6.9 added two options that were missing from the table - WD11 and WD12 and updated wording of WD5 and WD6 to include 'lowland' in the description.
29 April 2023
Updated to say that applications for Higher Tier have closed (28 April). Removed the How to complete your application by email or post guide.
16 February 2023
The deadline for requesting an application pack has been removed from section 1. The main date customers need to be aware of is the application submission deadline.The wording around not starting work or incurring costs for capital items before accepting an agreement offer or before the agreement start date has been clarified in section 5.1.Information on suspension of payments and over-claiming on capital payments has been added in section 6.5
7 February 2023
First published.

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