The Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme 1989

Paragraphs 3(1)(a), 4(1), 5(1), (2) and (4) and 7(2) and (3)

SCHEDULE 1 ELIGIBLE WORKS, FACILITIES AND TRANSACTIONS AND RATES OF GRANT

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Kind of work, 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 protective fencing), walls and banks (where the walls and banks are built of materials traditional in the locality) and associated gates, stiles and footbridges;	40	50
(b) facilities (except those specified in sub-paragraph (c) below) for the handling, storage and treatment of agricultural effluents and waste (including safety fencing) and fixed disposal facilities for such effluents and waste;	50	50
(c) poultry manure stores (excluding those integral with the poultry-house), including fixed disposal facilities for agricultural effluents and waste and safety fencing;	50	50
(d) shelter belts (including trees for shading livestock and associated protective fencing)–
(i) consisting of 50 per cent. or more broadleaved trees;	40	50
(ii) other shelter belts.	15	50
2.  Enclosure of areas of grazed woodland (consisting of 75 per cent. or more broadleaved trees or, in Scotland only, consisting of 75 per cent. or more Scots pine) with fencing protecting the areas from livestock.	40	50
3.  Burning heather or grass or making muirburn or regenerating heather by cutting; bracken control by means other than soil cultivation.	40	50
4.  Enclosure of areas of heather moorland or heathland with fencing protecting the areas from livestock.	40	50
5.  Repair or reinstatement of vernacular buildings in agricultural use and made of materials traditional in the locality where the repair or reinstatement is carried out using similar materials.	35	35
6.—(a) Replacement of apple orchards (other than apple orchards consisting of trees producing cider apples) which have been grubbed up after 1st July 1988 by an equal or smaller area of apple orchards consisting of commercial varieties of apple trees and associated trees required for their pollination.	25	25
(b) Replacement of pear orchards (other than pear orchards consisting of trees producing perry pears) which have been grubbed up after 1st July 1988 by an equal or smaller area of pear orchards consisting of commercial varieties of pear trees and associated trees required for their pollination.	25	25
7.  Provision, installation or replacement of heating systems (including boilers) in glasshouses and in durable plastic-clad structures designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce.	25	25
8.  Replacement of heated glasshouses (being heated internally by means of permanent installations for the consumption of fuel) by other glasshouses so heated or by heated durable plastic-clad structures designed and intended for the production of horticultural produce; alteration or improvement (including the supply and installation of permanent thermal insulation) of such heated glasshouses.	30	30
9.  In Scotland only, making, improvement or alteration of the banks or channels of water-courses or other agricultural flood protection works to provide or improve the drainage of agricultural land or to prevent or mitigate the flooding or erosion of agricultural land.	40	50
10.  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 9 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 this Scheme.