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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-stewardship-england-regulations-2005/schedule-2/part-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "HLS capital works items",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nHLS capital works item\nMaximum payment rate\n1 Boundaries—\n(a) Hedgerow restoration, including laying, coppicing or planting to fill gaps in a hedge, or any combination of these, and follow-up maintenance of restored hedgerows\n£5 per metre\n(b) Planting hedges\n£5 per metre\n(c) Hedgerow restoration – removal of fence posts and wires\n£0.60 per metre\n(d) Hedgerow restoration – preparatory work on hedges more than 1.5 metres wide and 5 metres high\n£2.40 per metre\n(e) Hedgerow restoration – additional work which involves use of staking and top binding\n£2.40 per metre\n. . .\n. . .\n(g) Restoration of stone walls\n£16 per metre\n(h) Supplement to (g) above where 50% or more of the stone is imported from elsewhere on the holding\n£6 per metre\n(i) Supplement to (g) above where 50% or more of the stone is imported from outside the holding\n£30 per metre\n(j) Supplement to (g) above where at least 10 metres of the wall is on slopes exceeding 30 degrees\n£7 per metre\n(k) Supplement to (g) above for the installation of stock-proof wiring along upper surface of a stone wall\n£1.80 per metre\n(l) Repair of stone-faced hedge banks\n£16 per metre\n(m) Restoration of stone-faced hedge banks\n£34 per metre\n(n) Restoration of earth banks\n£3 per metre\n(o) Supplement to (n) above for additional work in casting up\n£1.20 per metre\n(p) Restoration of ditches, dykes or rhines\n£2.90 per metre\n2 Fencing associated with conservation works—\n(a) Installation of sheep fencing\n£1.80 per metre\n(b) Installation of post and wire fencing\n£1.20 per metre\n(c) Installation of deer fencing in parks of historical interest\n£4 per metre\n(d) Installation of rabbit fencing\n£1.50 per metre\n(e) Installation of permanent electric fencing\n£1.20 per metre\n(f) Installation of high tensile fencing\n£1.25 per metre\n(g) Supplement to (a) to (f) above for the installation of fencing in difficult sites\n£2.50 per metre\n3 Tree-planting and tree management—\n(a) Installation of spiral rabbit guards\n£0.20 per guard\n(b) Planting of trees, shrubs and whips, including transplanting\n£1.60 per tree, shrub, or whip\n(c) Installation of tree-tubes and stakes\n£0.50 per tube\n(d) Planting of standard trees in parks of historical interest\n£7.50 per tree\n(e) Installation of parkland tree guards (post and wire) in parks of historical interest\n£64 per guard\n(f) Installation of welded steel tree guards\n£106 per guard\n(g) Planting of fruit trees\n£17 per tree\n(h) Installation of orchard tree guards (tube and mesh)\n£3.30 per guard\n(i) Installation of orchard tree guards (post and rail)\n£36 per guard\n(j) Pruning of orchard trees\n£17 per tree\n(k) Coppicing of trees along watercourses\n£29 per tree\n(l) Minor tree surgery, including minor pollarding\n£43 per tree\n(m) Major tree surgery, including major pollarding\n£89 per tree\n(n) Tree removal\n£25 per cubic metre\n4 Upland management—\n(a) Grip-blocking drainage channels\n£3.40 per square metre\n5 Wetland—\n(a) Creation of ditches, rhines and dykes\n£3.60 per square metre\n(b) Creation of gutters\n£1.90 per square metre\n(c) Installation of earth bunds\n£149 per bund\n(d) Installation of culverts\n£153 per culvert\n(e) Installation of timber sluices\n£314 per sluice\n(f) Installation of brick, stone or concrete sluices\n£960 per sluice\n(g) Creation of scrapes\n£1.40 per square metre of surface area up to 100 square metres, and £0.90 per square metre thereafter\n. . .\n. . .\n6 Ponds—\n(a) Creation of ponds\n£3 per square metre of surface area up to 100 square metres, and £1 per square metre thereafter\n(b) Restoration of existing ponds\n£2.10 per square metre of surface area up to 100 square metres of surface area, and £0.80 per square metre thereafter\n7 Introduction of livestock—\n(a) Installation of cattle drinking bays\n£119 per bay\n(b) Installation of cattle grids\n£538 per grid\n(c) Installation of pipelines to supply water\n£2 per metre\n(d) Installation of water troughs\n£85 per trough\n8 Scrub and bracken—\n(a) Removal or reduction of scrub, where scrub ground cover is less than 25%\n£76 per environmental stewardship agreement, plus £228 per hectare\n(b) Removal or reduction of scrub, where scrub ground cover is not less than 25% and not more than 75%\n£76 per environmental stewardship agreement, plus £376 per hectare\n(c) Removal or reduction of scrub where scrub ground cover is more than 75%\n£76 per environmental stewardship agreement, plus £583 per hectare\n(d) Removal or reduction of bracken by mechanical means\n£106 per environmental stewardship agreement, plus £48 per hectare\n(e) Removal or reduction of bracken by the application of chemicals\n£61 per environmental stewardship agreement, plus £112 per hectare\n(f) Difficult site supplement\n£7 per hectare\n9 Landscape items—\n(a) Installation of wooden field gates\n£149 per gate\n(b) Installation of stone gate posts\n£96 per post\n(c) Removal of eyesores\n£120 per eyesore\n(d) Installation of wings for wooden gates\n£70 per gate\n10 Conservation of species—\n(a) Construction of otter holts (using logs)\n£108 per holt\n(b) Construction of otter holts (by pipe and chamber)\n£203 per holt\n(c) Installation of bird or bat boxes\n£28 per box\n(d) Installation of bird strike markers\n£1.50 per marker\n(e) Installation of small mammal boxes\n£10.00 per box\n(f) Installation of badger gates\n£27 per gate\n11 Resource protection—\n(a) Installation of cross drains under farm tracks\n£139 per drain\n(b) Relocation of gates\n£136 per gate\n12 Agreement land to which public access is available—\n(a) Construction of hard standing for car parks\n£13 per square metre\n(b) Construction of hard standing for paths suitable for use by disabled people\n£15 per square metre\n(c) Installation of bridle gates\n£220 per gate\n(d) Installation of kissing gates\n£245 per gate\n(e) Installation of kissing gates suitable for wheelchair use\n£290 per gate\n(f) Installation of dog gates\n£35 per gate\n(g) Installation of timber stiles (other than ladder stiles)\n£100 per stile\n(h) Installation of ladder stiles\n£125 per stile\n(i) Installation of step-over stiles in stone walls\n£115 per stile\n(j) Installation of step-through stiles in stone walls\n£85 per stile\n(k) Construction of footbridges\n£315 per footbridge\n(l) Installation of benches\n£115 per bench\n(m) Payment for professional help in the preparation of notes for schoolteachers in relation to agreement land to which access for educational visits is permitted\n£490 per environmental stewardship agreement\n13 Other items—\n. . .\n. . .\n(b) Payment for professional help in the preparation of management plans\n£400 per plan",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 4 entry omitted (30.4.2006) by virtue of The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 4 entry omitted (30.4.2006) by virtue of The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 4 entry omitted (30.4.2006) by virtue of The Environmental Stewardship (England) and Countryside Stewardship (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/991), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:57.275914+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."
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