{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005/schedule-2/part-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005/schedule-2/part-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/621",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Stewardship (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "ELS options, OELS options and HLS options",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nColumn 4\nOption\nELS options points value per unit\nOELS options points value per unit\nHLS options maximum payment rate per agreement year\n1 General—\n(a) Identification, recording and retention of features\n3 per hectare\n3 per hectare\n(b) Basic organic management\n30 per hectare\n2 Field boundaries—\n(a) Hedgerow management (on both sides of the hedge)\n22 per 100 metres\n22 per 100 metres\n(b) Hedgerow management (on one side of the hedge)\n11 per 100 metres\n11 per 100 metres\n(c) Enhanced hedgerow management (on both sides of the hedge)\n42 per 100 metres\n42 per 100 metres\n(d) Stone faced hedge bank management (on both sides of the hedge bank)\n16 per 100 metres\n16 per 100 metres\n(e) Stone faced hedge bank management (on one side of the hedge bank)\n8 per 100 metres\n8 per 100 metres\n(f) Ditch management (on both sides of the ditch)\n24 per 100 metres\n24 per 100 metres\n(g) Ditch management (on one side of the ditch)\n8 per 100 metres\n8 per 100 metres\n(h) Ditch management combined with hedgerow management mentioned at (a) above\n38 per 100 metres\n38 per 100 metres\n(i) Ditch management combined with hedgerow management mentioned at (b) above\n26 per 100 metres\n26 per 100 metres\n(j) Ditch management combined with hedgerow management mentioned at (c) above\n56 per 100 metres\n56 per 100 metres\n(k) Stone wall protection and maintenance\n15 per 100 metres\n15 per 100 metres\n3 Trees and woodland—\n(a) Protection of in-field trees on arable land\n12 per tree\n12 per tree\n£12 per tree\n(b) Protection of in-field trees on grassland\n8 per tree\n8 per tree\n£8 per tree\n(c) Maintenance of woodland fences\n4 per 100 metres\n4 per 100 metres\n(d) Management of land bordering woodland\n380 per hectare\n380 per hectare\n£380 per hectare\n4 Historic and landscape features—\n(a) Taking cultivated land in or on which archaeological features are located out of cultivation\n460 per hectare\n600 per hectare\n£600 per hectare\n(b) Reducing cultivation depths on land in or on which archaeological features are located\n60 per hectare\n100 per hectare\n£100 per hectare\n(c) Management of scrub on archaeological sites\n120 per hectare\n120 per hectare\n£120 per hectare\n(d) Management of grassland in or on which archaeological features are located\n16 per hectare\n16 per hectare\n£16 per hectare\n(e) Maintenance of traditional farm buildings\n2 per square metre of ground floor area\n2 per square metre of ground floor area\n£2 per square metre of ground floor area\n5 Buffer strips—\n(a) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 2 metre buffer strips on cultivated land\n300 per hectare\n£300 per hectare\n(b) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 2 metre buffer strips on rotational land\n400 per hectare\n£400 per hectare\n(c) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 4 metre or 6 metre buffer strips on cultivated land\n400 per hectare\n£400 per hectare\n(d) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 4 metre or 6 metre buffer strips on rotational land\n500 per hectare\n£500 per hectare\n(e) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 2 metre buffer strips on intensive grassland\n300 per hectare\n£300 per hectare\n(f) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 2 metre buffer strips on organic grassland\n400 per hectare\n£400 per hectare\n(g) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 4 metre or 6 metre buffer strips on intensive grassland\n400 per hectare\n£400 per hectare\n(h) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 4 metre or 6 metre buffer strips on organic grassland\n500 per hectare\n£500 per hectare\n(i) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of buffer strips around in-field ponds in improved grassland\n400 per hectare\n£400 per hectare\n(j) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of buffer strips around in-field ponds in organic grassland\n500 per hectare\n£500 per hectare\n(k) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of buffer strips around in-field ponds in arable land\n400 per hectare\n£400 per hectare\n(l) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of buffer strips around in-field ponds in rotational land\n500 per hectare\n£500 per hectare\n6 Arable land—\n(a) Management of field corners\n400 per hectare\n500 per hectare\n£500 per hectare\n(b) Establishing and maintaining plant species beneficial to wild birds on arable land\n450 per hectare\n550 per hectare\n£550 per hectare\n(c) Establishing and maintaining plant species beneficial to wild birds on set-aside land\n85 per hectare\n£85 per hectare\n(d) Establishing and maintaining a mixture of pollen and nectar rich plants on arable land\n450 per hectare\n550 per hectare\n£550 per hectare\n(e) Establishing and maintaining a mixture of pollen and nectar rich plants on set-aside land\n85 per hectare\n£85 per hectare\n(f) Retention of over-wintered stubbles on arable land\n120 per hectare\n150 per hectare\n£150 per hectare\n(g) Creation and maintenance of beetle banks\n580 per hectare\n750 per hectare\n£750 per hectare\n(h) Creation of skylark plots\n5 per plot\n5 per plot\n£5 per plot\n(i) Creation of conservation headlands\n100 per hectare\n£100 per hectare\n(j) Creation of conservation headlands with no fertiliser or manure\n330 per hectare\n£330 per hectare\n(k) Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 6 metre uncropped cultivated margin on arable land\n400 per hectare\n£400 per hectare\n7 Encouragement of a range of crop types—\n(a) Under-sowing a spring-sown cereal crop with a mixture of seeds of grass and legume species\n200 per hectare\n150 per hectare\n£200 per hectare\n(b) Establishing and maintaining plant species beneficial to wild birds on grassland\n450 per hectare\n550 per hectare\n£550 per hectare\n(c) Establishing and maintaining a mixture of pollen and nectar rich plants on grassland\n450 per hectare\n550 per hectare\n£550 per hectare\n(d) Planting cereals for whole crop silage followed by over-wintered stubbles\n230 per hectare\n250 per hectare\n£250 per hectare\n(e) Planting brassica fodder crops followed by over-wintered stubbles\n90 per hectare\n110 per hectare\n£110 per hectare\n8 Reduction of soil erosion—\n(a) Management of cultivated land with a high risk of soil erosion\n18 per hectare\n18 per hectare\n£18 per hectare\n(b) Management of maize crops to reduce soil erosion\n18 per hectare\n18 per hectare\n£18 per hectare\n9 Grassland outside the less favoured area—\n(a) Taking corners of fields of improved grassland out of management\n400 per hectare\n500 per hectare\n£500 per hectare\n(b) Management of permanent grassland using low inputs\n85 per hectare\n115 per hectare\n£115 per hectare\n(c) Management of permanent grassland using very low inputs\n150 per hectare\n180 per hectare\n£180 per hectare\n(d) Management of rush pastures\n150 per hectare\n180 per hectare\n£180 per hectare\n(e) Stocking land with cattle and sheep\n8 per hectare\n8 per hectare\n£8 per hectare\n10 Land within the less favoured area—\n(a) Management of field corners\n100 per hectare\n100 per hectare\n£100 per hectare\n(b) Management of in-bye grassland using low inputs\n35 per hectare\n35 per hectare\n£35 per hectare\n(c) Management of in-bye pasture and meadows using very low inputs\n60 per hectare\n60 per hectare\n£60 per hectare\n(d) Management of rush pastures\n60 per hectare\n60 per hectare\n£60 per hectare\n(e) Establishment (where appropriate) and maintenance of rough grazing on land in parcels of less than 15 hectares\n35 per hectare\n35 per hectare\n£35 per hectare\n(f) Establishment (where appropriate) and maintenance of rough grazing on land in parcels of 15 hectares or more\n5 per hectare\n£5 per hectare\n(g) Stocking land with cattle and sheep\n8 per hectare\n8 per hectare\n£8 per hectare\n11 Preparation of land management plans—\n(a) Soil management\n3 per hectare\n3 per hectare\n£3 per hectare\n(b) Nutrient management\n2 per hectare\n2 per hectare\n£2 per hectare\n(c) Manure management\n2 per hectare\n2 per hectare\n£2 per hectare\n(d) Crop protection management\n2 per hectare\n£2 per hectare",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Table added (30.4.2006) by The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Table added (30.4.2006) by The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/621/schedule/2/part/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:57.275914+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}