PART 2
Table A
Land type | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 |
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Conversion | |||||
Arable | £220 | £220 | £60 | £60 | £60 |
Improved grassland | £105 | £105 | £50 | £50 | £50 |
Fruit & vegetable | £300 | £300 | £60 | £60 | £60 |
Unimproved grassland/ rough grazing | £5 | £5 | £5 | £5 | £5 |
Maintenance | |||||
Arable | £60 | £60 | £60 | £60 | £60 |
Improved grassland | £50 | £50 | £50 | £50 | £50 |
Fruit & vegetable | £60 | £60 | £60 | £60 | £60 |
Unimproved grassland/ rough grazing | £5 | £5 | £5 | £5 | £5 |
Table B
Woodland Type | Minimum wood or individual block size planted per year (hectares) | Composition | Minimum stocking density per hectare at year 5 or when considered to be ‘established’ |
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Productive conifer woodland (low cost) | 5.0 |
| Spruce – 2500 Broadleaves – 1100 |
Productive conifer woodland (high cost) | 5.0 |
| Pine – 3000 Douglas Fir, Larch – 2000 Broadleaves – 1100 |
Productive broadleaved woodland | 2.0 |
| Oak, Beech – 3100 Sycamore, Ash – 2500 Other Broadleaf – 1100 |
Native woodland | 0.25 |
| 1600 |
Naturally regenerated native woodland | 0.25 |
| 1600 |
Mixed conifer / broadleaf woodland | 0.25 |
| Conifer – 2500 Broadleaves – 1600 |
Table C
Woodland Type | Initial Planting Payment Rate £/ha * | Maintenance Payments Rate £/ha/year ** |
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* Paid as a lump sum on completion of planting | ||
** Paid as an annual payment for a period of 5 years. Trees must be satisfactorily “established” within 10 years of planting. Only payable where planting has occurred on agricultural land or abandoned agricultural land (i.e. at least 50% of a woodland type must be on agricultural land and/or abandoned agricultural land to be eligible for the maintenance payments) | ||
Productive conifer woodland (low cost) | 840 | 112 |
Productive conifer woodland (high cost) | 980 | 133 |
Productive broadleaved woodland | 1780 | 161 |
Native woodland | 875 | 154 |
Naturally regenerated native woodland | 630 | 70 |
Mixed conifer / broadleaf woodland | 1470 | 154 |
The term “established” means that trees must be present to the minimum stocking densities specified, healthy, and in a condition capable of continued growth given no further weeding but subject to normal ongoing maintenance operations such as protection from inappropriate grazing by wild or domestic animals.
An additional establishment premium for using genetically improved planting material is available as follows:
Categories of genetically improved planting material | £ per hectare |
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Sitka spruce seed orchard material that falls within the tested category in terms of regulation 4 of the Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002(1) | 50 |
Sitka spruce vegetatively propagated tested “family mixture” material derived from controlled cross-pollination. | 150 |
Table D –
Woodland Improvement Grants option
Column 1 | Column 2 |
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Item | Standard cost |
Badger gates installed in fence lines which are cutting across an established badger run | £110 per gate |
Respace natural regeneration | £500 per hectare |
Pre commercial and non commercial woodland thinning | £150 per hectare |
Removal of tree crop to waste 3 6 metre high | £750 per hectare |
Woodland clearance benefiting raised bog/blanket bog – felling of waste | £975 per hectare |
Woodland clearance benefiting raised bog/blanket bog – felling and extraction | £1375 per hectare |
Seedling tree removal | £35 per hectare |
Small scale woodland thinning | £300 per hectare |
Chipping/mulching of tree debris and brash | £500 per hectare |
Restructuring with Caledonian Scots pine and other conifer | £448 per hectare |
Restructuring with mixed broadleaves | £1,002 per hectare |
Restructuring with native broadleaves | £1,099 per hectare |
Woodland deer impact reduction | £30 per hectare for deer control during the first 5 years of a Deer Management Plan |
Forest plan preparation | £20 per hectare for first 200 hectares, £5 per hectare thereafter |
Dead wood management | £40 per hectare |
Stock fence | £4 per metre |
Enhancing/modifying a stock fence in black grouse and capercaillie core areas | £2 per metre |
Upgrading stock to deer fence | £2.75 per metre |
Scare or temporary fencing | £1.50 per metre |
Rabbit proofing – existing or new stock/deer fence | £1.90 per metre |
Deer fence | £6.90 per metre |
Enhancing/modifying a deer fence in black grouse and capercaillie core areas | £5 per metre |
Conversion of deer fence to stock fence in black grouse and capercaille core areas | £2 per metre |
Fence removal | £2 per metre |
Gate for stock fence | £100 each |
Gate for deer fence | £170 each |
Ditch/drain blocking with plastic piling dams:Small ditches (up to 0.5 metres wide and deep) | £60 per dam |
Ditch/drain blocking with plastic piling dams:Medium ditches (between 0.5 and 1 metre wide and deep) | £120 per dam |
Ditch/drain blocking with plastic piling dams:Large ditches (between 1 and 2 metre wide and 0.5 and 1 metre deep) | £280 per dam |
Peat dam | £0.26 per metre of drain or furrow blocked with peat dams. Minimum payment £300 |
Small scale tree and shrub planting (on a site not exceeding 0.25 hectares) | £2 per tree or shrub |
Provision of bat and bird boxes | £15 per box. |
S.I. 2002/3026.