# The Countryside Premium Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1997, Part I: MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES


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Activity
Maximum payment rate
1.
Management of grassland for birds
£125 per hectare per annum.
2.
Management of species-rich grassland
£80 per hectare per annum.
3.
Creation of species-rich grassland
£250 per hectare per annum.
4.
Management of wetland
£80 per hectare per annum.
5.
Creation of wetland
£250 per hectare per annum.
6.
Management of water margin
£100 per 0.25 hectare per annum.
7.
Management of flood plain
£25 per hectare per annum.
8.
Management of coastal heath
£80 per hectare per annum.
9.
Stock disposal
Subject to Part IV of this Schedule £35 per ewe per annum for each ewe removed from the flock including, where the undertaking is in substitution for an undertaking under the Heather Moorland (Livestock Extensification) Regulations 1995, any ewe removed prior to such substitution in respect of the undertaking under those Regulations.
10.
Muirburn
£5 per hectare per annum for the area of moorland identified for burning.
11.
Creation of grass margin or beetlebank
£184 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof per annum.
12.
Creation of conservation headland
£100 per hectare per annum.
13.
Introduction or retention of extensive cropping
£120 per hectare per annum.
14.
Management of cropped machair
£140 per hectare per annum or, where cultivation is combined with the traditional application of seaweed and dung, £220 per hectare.
15.
Creation of extended hedge
£125 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof per annum.
16.
Management of scrub
£55 per hectare per annum.
17.
Provision of access
Where the site comprises a 10 metre wide strip £170 per hectare per annum or, in the case of set aside land, £90 per hectare per annum; or
Where the site comprises all or part of a field, £50 per hectare per annum; or, in the case of set aside land, £45 per hectare per annum.
18.
Management of a site of archaeological or historic interest
£80 per 0.25 hectares per annum or part thereof up to 1.5 hectares and £20 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof thereafter.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/330/schedule/4/part/I (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-premium-scheme-scotland-regulations-1997/schedule-4/part-I
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.