Guidance

CAP Reform: introducing Countryside Stewardship

An overview of Countryside Stewardship, the new environmental land management scheme.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency and Forestry Commission
Published
25 November 2014
Last updated
19 December 2014 鈥� See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on

This document has been superseded by later information.

See Countryside Stewardship: get paid for environmental land management.

Applies to England

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This document has now been superseded by 鈥�CAP Reform: December 2014 update鈥� and has now been archived.

This leaflet introduces Countryside Stewardship, the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) environmental land management scheme. It gives an overview of how Countryside Stewardship works, including important information about:

  • the 3 main elements (Higher Tier, Mid Tier and a range of capital grants)
  • when agreements and payments will start
  • what funding will be available in 2015

Alongside this, we鈥檝e published the proposed payment rates for Countryside Stewardship. These are the payment rates for both land management options and capital items.

Further information will be published on 天美影院 at www.gov.uk/cap-reform as schemes are finalised.

Updates to this page

Published 25 November 2014
Last updated 19 December 2014 show all updates

  1. Archived - superseded by CAP Reform December 2014 update

  2. First published.

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