{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-stewardship-amendment-regulations-1999/schedule-1/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-stewardship-amendment-regulations-1999/schedule-1/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1177",
  "legislation_title": "The Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-stewardship-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "AMENDED PARAGRAPHS 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 6",
  "text": "“\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\n1 In relation to hay meadows–\n(a) management of lowland meadowland of more than 3 hectares\n£85 per hectare per agreement year\n(b) management of lowland meadowland of 3 hectares or less\n£115 per hectare per agreement year\n(c) management of upland meadowland\n£150 per hectare per agreement year\n(d) where sub-paragraph (c) applies, raising water levels on upland grassland\n£40 per hectare per agreement year\n(e) where sub-paragraph (c) applies, temporary removal of sheep from upland grassland\n£3 per month for each sheep removed from, and kept on land other than, upland grassland forming part of the agreement land\n(f) where sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) apply, additional management in the initial years of the agreement\n£40 per hectare per agreement year for the first 5 agreement years\n(g) where sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) apply, use of native grass and herb seed to establish an enhanced sward\n£250 per hectare per agreement year\n2 In relation to grazed pasture–\n(a) management of pasture of more than 3 hectares\n£85 per hectare per agreement year\n(b) management of pasture of 3 hectares or less\n£115 per hectare per agreement year\n(c) management of enclosed upland pasture\n£60 per hectare per agreement year\n(d) management of grassland above chalk and limestone\n£60 per hectare per agreement year\n(e) management of upland rough pasture\n£20 per hectare per agreement year\n(f) management of enclosed upland rough pasture\n£45 per hectare per agreement year\n(g) where sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) apply, additional management in the initial years of the agreement\n£40 per hectare per agreement year for the first 5 agreement years\n(h) where sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) apply, use of native grass and herb seed to establish an enhanced sward\n£250 per hectare per agreement year\n(i) where sub-paragraph (c), (d), (e) or (f) apply, temporary removal of sheep from upland grassland\n£3 per month for each sheep removed from, and kept on land other than, upland grassland forming part of the agreement land\n(j) where sub-paragraph (c), (d), (e) or (f) apply, burning of vegetation\n£5 per hectare per agreement year\n(k) where sub-paragraph (e) or (f) apply, management of common land\n£5 per hectare per agreement year\n(l) where sub-paragraph (c), (d), (e) or (f) apply, raising water levels on upland grassland\n£40 per hectare per agreement year\n3 In relationship to upland moorland–\n(a) management to enable regeneration of suppressed heather\n£70 per hectare per agreement year\n(b) management to enable regeneration of heather on improved land\n£120 per hectare per agreement year\n(c) management to enable enhancement of heather moorland\n£45 per hectare per agreement year\n(d) management on heather moorland\n£4 per hectare per agreement year, subject to a maximum total of £2,500 per agreement year\n(e) where sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) apply, raising water levels on heather moorland\n£40 per hectare per agreement year\n(f) where sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) apply, temporary removal of sheep from heather moorland\n£3 per month for each sheep removed from, and kept on land other than, heather moorland forming part of the agreement land\n(g) where sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) apply, burning of vegetation\n£5 per hectare per agreement year\n(h) where sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) apply, management of common land\n£5 per hectare per agreement year\n4 In relation to cultivated land–\n(a) creation and management of grassland\n£280 per hectare per agreement year\n(b) where sub-paragraph (a) applies, creation and management of grassland, where the land has been set aside in the year preceding the first agreement year\n£100 per hectare per agreement year\n(c) where sub-paragraph (a) applies, additional management in the initial years of the agreement\n£40 per hectare per agreement year for the first 5 agreement years\n(d) where sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) apply, use of native grass and herb seed to establish an enhanced sward\n£250 per hectare per agreement year\n6 In relation to field margins–\n(a) establishment and maintenance of an uncropped arable margin of a width in the range of 4 to 12 metres and averaging at least 6 metres\n£583 per hectare per agreement year\n(b) establishment and maintenance of a grass margin or strip of a width of at least 2 metres in or across an arable field\n£750 per hectare per agreement year\n(c) management of a field margin or strip of an average width of at least 6 metres, within grassland\n£100 per hectare per agreement year\n(d) management, for the protection of wildlife, of a field margin or strip of an average width of at least 6 metres, within grassland\n£266 per hectare per agreement year\n(e) where sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d) apply, use of a native grass and herb seed to establish an enhanced sward\n£250 per hectare per agreement year\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1177/schedule/1/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:37.298983+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}