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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005/schedule-2/part-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "HLS options",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nHLS option\nMaximum payment rate per agreement year\n1 Hedgerows—\n(a) Maintenance of hedgerows of very high environmental value\n£27 per 100 metres\n2 Woodland trees and scrub—\n(a) Protection of ancient trees in arable fields\n£25 per tree\n(b) Protection of ancient trees in intensive grassland\n£25 per tree\n(c) Maintenance of grazed woodland or parkland\n£180 per hectare\n(d) Restoration of grazed woodland or parkland\n£180 per hectare\n(e) Creation of grazed woodland\n£180 per hectare\n(f) Maintenance of small areas of woodland\n£100 per hectare\n(g) Restoration of small areas of woodland\n£100 per hectare\n(h) Creation of small areas of woodland in the less favoured area\n£200 per hectare\n(i) Creation of small areas of woodland outside the less favoured area\n£315 per hectare\n(j) Maintenance of successional areas and scrub for specific target species\n£100 per hectare\n(k) Restoration of successional areas and scrub for specific target species\n£100 per hectare\n(l) Creation of successional areas and scrub for specific target species\n£100 per hectare\n(m) Supplement to (g) above for the removal of livestock from overgrazed woodland\n£100 per hectare\n(n) Supplement to (k) and (l) above for the removal of livestock from overgrazed areas of scrub\n£100 per hectare\n3 Orchards—\n(a) Maintenance of high value traditional orchards\n£250 per hectare\n(b) Maintenance of traditional orchards in production\n£95 per hectare\n(c) Restoration of traditional orchards\n£250 per hectare\n(d) Creation of traditional orchards\n£190 per hectare\n4 Historic and landscape features—\n(a) Protection of sub-surface archaeological features by establishing grassland through natural regeneration\n£500 per hectare\n(b) Direct drilling of crops to protect archaeological features from ploughing or other deep cultivation\n£70 per hectare\n(c) Maintaining high water levels in wetland areas to protect archaeological features\n£240 per hectare\n(d) Maintenance of historic water features\n£295 per hectare\n(e) Maintenance of water meadows\n£350 per hectare\n(f) Restoration and management of water meadows\n£350 per hectare\n5 Arable land—\n(a) Establishing (where appropriate) and maintaining a grass margin that contains a mixture of grass and wildflower species\n£485 per hectare\n(b) Establishing and maintaining plots with plant species beneficial to wild birds\n£475 per hectare\n(c) Establishing and maintaining fallow plots for ground-nesting birds\n£360 per hectare\n(d) Establishing and maintaining an un-harvested, fertiliser-free conservation headland\n£440 per hectare\n(e) Management of a cereal crop using reduced herbicides followed by over-wintered stubbles and a spring crop\n£195 per hectare\n(f) Management of fodder crops to retain or re-create a mixture of wildflower and grass for seed-eating birds\n£150 per hectare\n(g) Establishing and maintaining cultivated fallow plots or margins for rare arable plants on set-aside land\n£80 per hectare\n(h) Establishing and maintaining plots for ground-nesting birds on set-aside land\n£80 per hectare\n(i) Management of a cereal crop using reduced inputs followed by set-aside\n£140 per hectare\n(j) Establishing and maintaining of un-harvested, fertiliser-free conservation headlands followed by set-aside\n£400 per hectare\n(k) Establishing a spring cereal crop using restricted inputs to retain or re-create an arable area within a predominantly grassland area\n£250 per hectare\n(l) Establishing and maintaining cultivated fallow plots or margins for the establishment of rare arable plants\n£440 per hectare\n6 Resource protection—\n(a) Reversion of arable land to unfertilised grassland to prevent erosion or run-off\n£280 per hectare\n(b) Reversion of arable land to grassland with low fertiliser input to prevent erosion or run-off\n£210 per hectare\n(c) Management of in-field grass areas to prevent erosion or run-off\n£350 per hectare\n(d) Preventing erosion or run-off from intensively managed improved grassland\n£280 per hectare\n(e) Supplement to (a) to (d) above for the seasonal removal of livestock from grassland or grass areas (as the case may be)\n£40 per hectare\n(f) Supplement to (d) above where grassland is also managed without the use of fertilisers\n£55 per hectare\n7 Grassland—\n(a) Maintenance of species-rich grassland\n£200 per hectare\n(b) Restoration of species-rich grassland\n£200 per hectare\n(c) Creation of species-rich grassland\n£280 per hectare\n(d) Maintenance of wet grassland for breeding waders\n£335 per hectare\n(e) Maintenance of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl\n£255 per hectare\n(f) Restoration of wet grassland for breeding waders\n£335 per hectare\n(g) Restoration of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl\n£255 per hectare\n(h) Creation of wet grassland for breeding waders\n£355 per hectare\n(i) Creation of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl\n£285 per hectare\n(j) Maintenance of semi-improved or rough grassland for target species\n£130 per hectare\n(k) Restoration of semi-improved or rough grassland for target species\n£130 per hectare\n(l) Creation of semi-improved or rough grassland for target species\n£210 per hectare\n(m) Management of buffer strips on intensive grassland\n£590 per hectare\n(n) Continuation or re-introduction of haymaking\n£75 per hectare\n(o) Supplement to (a) to (l) above for raising water levels in ditches and adjacent land\n£80 per hectare\n(p) Supplement to (e), (g) and (i) above for flooding the grassland\n£85 per hectare\n8 Moorland and upland rough grazing—\n(a) Maintenance of moorland\n£40 per hectare\n(b) Restoration of moorland\n£40 per hectare\n(c) Creation of upland heathland\n£60 per hectare\n(d) Maintenance of rough grazing habitat for birds\n£80 per hectare\n(e) Restoration of rough grazing habitat for birds\n£80 per hectare\n(f) Supplement to (a), (b), (d) and (e) above for the management of grazing\n£5 per hectare\n(g) Supplement to (a), (b), (d) and (e) above for the removal of livestock\n£10 per hectare\n(h) Supplement to (a) to (e) above for the re-wetting of moorland to maintain wildlife habitats\n£10 per hectare\n(i) Supplement to (a), (b), (d) and (e) above for management of heather, gorse and grass by burning or cutting\n£7 per hectare\n9 Access—\n(a) Permitting and making provision for public access to farmland\n£41 per hectare\n(b) Provision of footpath access on farmland\n£45 per 100 metres\n(c) Provision of paths on farm land for people with reduced mobility\n£105 per 100 metres\n(d) Upgrading and maintaining paths on farm land for people with reduced mobility\n£105 per 100 metres\n(e) Provision of bridleways or cycle paths on farm land\n£90 per 100 metres\n(f) Upgrading and maintenance of bridleways or cycle paths on farm land\n£90 per 100 metres\n(g) Permitting and making provision for access to farm land for educational visits\n£100 per visit\n(h) Permitting and making provision for public access to farm land – base payment for (a) to (f) above\n£350 per environmental stewardship agreement\n(i) Permitting access to farm land for educational visits – base payment for (g) above\n£500 per year\n10 Lowland heathland—\n(a) Maintenance of lowland heathland\n£200 per hectare\n(b) Restoration of heathland on neglected sites\n£200 per hectare\n(c) Restoration of forestry areas to lowland heathland\n£200 per hectare\n(d) Creation of lowland heathland on arable or improved grassland\n£450 per hectare\n(e) Creation of lowland heathland on disused quarry sites\n£150 per hectare\n11 Inter-tidal and coastal land—\n(a) Maintenance of coastal saltmarsh\n£30 per hectare\n(b) Restoration of coastal saltmarsh\n£30 per hectare\n(c) Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on arable land\n£700 per hectare\n(d) Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on grassland\n£500 per hectare\n(e) Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat by unmanaged breach or regular inundation\n£150 per hectare\n(f) Maintenance of sand dunes\n£140 per hectare\n(g) Restoration of sand dunes\n£140 per hectare\n(h) Creation of coastal vegetated shingle and sand dunes on arable land\n£320 per hectare\n(i) Creation of coastal vegetated shingle and sand dunes on grassland\n£200 per hectare\n(j) Supplement to (a) to (e) above for the management of grazing on saltmarsh or saline habitat (as the case may be)\n£70 per hectare\n(k) Supplement to (b) and (e) above for the temporary removal of livestock from saltmarsh or saline habitat (as the case may be)\n£40 per hectare\n12 Wetland—\n(a) Maintenance of ponds of high wildlife value with an area of less than 100 square metres\n£90 per pond\n(b) Maintenance of ponds of high wildlife value with an area of at least 100 square metres\n£180 per pond\n(c) Maintenance of reedbeds\n£60 per hectare\n(d) Restoration of reedbeds\n£60 per hectare\n(e) Creation of reedbeds\n£380 per hectare\n(f) Maintenance of fen\n£60 per hectare\n(g) Restoration of fen\n£60 per hectare\n(h) Creation of fen\n£380 per hectare\n(i) Maintenance of lowland raised bog to provide habitat for wildlife\n£150 per hectare\n(j) Restoration of lowland raised bog to provide habitat for wildlife\n£150 per hectare\n(k) Supplement to (c) to (h) above for implementing a cutting regime\n£350 per hectare\n(l) Supplement to (f) to (j) above for implementing a grazing regime\n£200 per hectare\n13 Additional supplements—\n(a) Supplement for controlling invasive plant species\n£60 per hectare\n(b) Supplement for controlling bracken\n£35 per hectare\n(c) Supplement for the management of small fields\n£35 per hectare\n(d) Supplement for the management of difficult sites\n£50 per hectare\n(e) Supplement for land in respect of which there is more than one rights holder or owner\n£10 per hectare\n(f) Supplement for cattle grazing for conservation purposes\n£35 per hectare\n(g) Supplement for grazing native breeds at risk\n£70 per hectare",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 Pt. 3 Table substituted (30.4.2006) by The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 3 Table added (30.4.2006) by The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(b)"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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