The Agriculture Improvement Regulations 1985

Regulations 6(3), 9(1), 10(1), (2), (3) and (7) and 12(2)

SCHEDULE ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Kind of work or facility or transaction	Business outside less-favoured area.Rate of grant.Per cent.	Business inside less-favoured area.Rate of grant.Per cent.
1. Provision, replacement or improvement of:
(a) hedges (including hedgerow trees and associated temporary protective fencing), walls, banks and dykes (where the walls, banks and dykes are built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates, stiles and footbridges;	30	60
(b) facilities for the handling, storage and treatment of agricultural effluents and waste;	30	60
(c) shelter belts, (including trees for shading stock and associated temporary protective fencing)—
(i) consisting of 50 per cent. or more broadleaved trees;	30	60
(ii) other shelter belts.	15	60
2. Supply and installation of:
(a) wind or water powered pumps and generators, solar and other forms of permanent and durable energy-saving agricultural investment (excluding any investment specified in sub-paragraph (b) below);	15	30
(b) permanent thermal insulation, vapour sealing or gas sealing for the control of temperature or atmosphere in buildings designed and intended for agricultural use (excluding glasshouses of a kind specified in paragraph 10 below).	15	30
3. Burning heather or grass or making muirburn or regenerating heather by cutting; bracken control by means other than soil cultivation.	15	30
4. Provision, replacement, improvement or alteration of:
(a) facilities for the storage, supply and distribution of water for agricultural purposes (including farm ponds);	15	30
(b) field drainage, including under-drainage and ditching; moling and subsoiling, carried out as an integral part of the provision of a new drainage system;	15	30
(c) roads, paths, and other permanent ways, grids, hard standings, fords, bridges, culverts, railway crossings, creeps, piers, jetties or slips;	15	20
(d) the main framework of permanent buildings or of durable plastic-clad structures (except living accommodation and buildings or structures designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce (see paragraphs 8 and 10 below)), yards, loading platforms, ramps, aprons, earth banks, silos or bulk dry stores;	15	30
(e) pens, dips, stells or other facilities designed and intended for use in connection with the gathering, treatment, feeding or temporary shelter of livestock; fences, shelter screens, walls and dykes (where the walls and dykes are not built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates;	15	30
(f) facilities for the supply and distribution of electricity and gas for agricultural purposes;	15	30
(g) watercress beds, stakes and wirework for hops, cane fruit, and vineyards;	15	15
(h) facilities for the farming of freshwater fish and crustaceans for food production;	5	10
(j) works and facilities to prevent the flooding of agricultural land by watercourses.	15	30
5. (a) In Northern Ireland only, the restoration of land by levelling, regarding and removal of obstacles to cultivation excluding the removal of shrubs or trees, clearance or removal of tree stumps or hedges and filling in of ponds or ditches.	15	30
(b) Laying down to permanent pasture of land used for cropping.	15	30
(c) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland (excluding heathland and moorland), including as part of a complete programme of work the application of lime or fertiliser.	15	Nil
(d) Reseeding and regeneration of grassland (excluding heathland and moorland); application of lime or fertiliser (other than normal husbandry applications) for the benefit of grassland.	Nil	30
6. Orchard grubbing.	15	15
7. (a) Replacement of apple orchards (other than apple orchards consisting of trees producing cider apples) which have been grubbed up after 7th November 1982 by an equal or smaller area of apple orchards consisting of— (i) the varieties of apple trees known as Cox's Orange Pippin apple, Bramley's Seedling apple or Spartan apple; (ii) any other named varieties of apple trees required for pollination (other than varieties producing cider apples) not exceeding in total one half of the number of trees of the varieties specified in sub-paragraph (i); (iii) any species of crab apple tree and any hybrid varieties of crab apple tree required for pollination.	35	35
(b) Replacement of pear orchards (other than pear orchards consisting of trees producing perry pears) which have been grubbed up after 7th November 1982 by an equal or smaller area of pear orchards consisting of— (i) the varieties of pear trees known as Conference pear of Doyenne du Comice pear; (ii) any other named varieties of pear trees required for pollination (other than varieties producing perry pears) not exceeding in total one half of the number of trees of the varieties specified in sub-paragraph (i)	35	35
8. (a) Provision or enlargement of the main framework of permanent buildings, of glasshouses (whether heated or not) and of durable plastic-clad structures, where such buildings, glasshouses or structures are designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce.	15	15
(b) Replacement of glasshouses (excluding those of a kind specified in paragraph 10 below) and durable plastic-clad structures.	25	25
9. Provision, installation or replacement of glasshouse heating systems including boilers.	20	20
10. Replacement, alteration or other improvement (including the supply and installation of permanent thermal insulation) of heated glasshouses being heated internally by means of permanent installations for the consumption of fuel.	50	50
11. Plant or equipment designed and intended for the preparation for market of harvested horticultural produce.	20	20
12. (a) Alteration, enlargement or reconditioning of permanent farmhouses and farm buildings to provide or improve farm tourist accommodation, including work of a capital nature relating to catering and drying facilities, provision or improvement of gas, electricity or water supplies, provision or improvement of foul drainage and rain and surface water disposal facilities.	Nil	25
(b) Installation of roads, hard standings, paths and fences in connection with a tourist enterprise.	Nil	25
(c) Provision or improvement of on-farm camping and caravan facilities, including installation of gas, electricity or water supplies and provision of toilet blocks.	Nil	25
13. Alteration, enlargement or reconditioning of permanent farm buildings for craft or light industrial use or for the production or processing of food, including work of a capital nature relating to farm workshops, office accommodation, stores and processing rooms, provision or improvement of gas, electricity or water supplies and provision or improvement of drainage and foul waste disposal facilities.	Nil	25
14. Any work, facility or transaction (including conservation or amenity works) incidental to the carrying out of any work, facility or transaction specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 13 above or necessary or proper in carrying it out or providing it or securing the full benefit thereof.	The rate appropriate to that work, facility or transaction in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
15. Preparation of improvement plans.	15	30