{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-stewardship-scheme-scotland-regulations-2001/schedule-4/part-I", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-stewardship-scheme-scotland-regulations-2001/schedule-4/part-I.json", "legislation": "ssi/2001/300", "legislation_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2001", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-stewardship-scheme-scotland-regulations-2001", "path": "schedule/4/part/I", "kind": "part", "number": "I", "heading": "MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES", "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nActivity\nRates of payment\n1.1Extensive management of mown grassland for birds.\n£150 per hectare.\n1.2Management of open grazed grasslands for birds.\n£100 per hectare.\n1.3Extensive management of mown grassland for corncrakes.\n£190 per hectare.\n1.4Management of early and late cover for corncrakes.\n£160 per hectare.\n1.5Management of wet grassland for waders.\n£100 per hectare.\n2.1Management of species-rich grassland.\n£100 per hectare.\n2.2Bracken eradication programme.\n£25 per hectare for area of species-rich grassland identified for bracken eradication.\n2.3Creation and management of species-rich grassland.\n£250 per hectare.\n2.4Management of coastal heath.\n£80 per hectare.\n2.5Management of lowland heath.\n£115 per hectare.\n3.1Management of wetland.\n£100 per hectare.\n3.2Management of lowland raised bogs.\n£70 per hectare.\n3.3Creation and management of wetland.\n£250 per hectare.\n3.4Management of water margin.\n£400 per hectare.\n3.5Management of flood plain.\n£25 per hectare.\n4.1Moorland management.\n£1 per hectare.\n4.2Stock disposal.\n£45 per hectare of moorland.\n4.3Muirburn and heather swiping.\n£11 per hectare for area of moorland to be burned/swiped in 10 years.\n4.4Bracken eradication programme.\n£25 per hectare for area of moorland identified for bracken eradication.\n5.1Management of grass margin or beetlebank in arable fields.\n£736 per hectare.\n5.2Management of conservation headlands.\n£70 per hectare or if nitrogenous fertiliser is not applied, a premium payment of £150 per hectare.\n5.3Management of extended hedges.\n£500 per hectare.\n5.4Management of hedgerows.\n£10,000 per hectare (£1 per square metre).\n6.1Introduction or retention of extensive cropping.\n£120 per hectare or for application of management regime for period of three years or more on same site, £140 per hectare.\n6.2Management of cropped machair.\n£200 per hectare or where cultivation is combined with the traditional application of seaweed and/or dung, £240 per hectare.\n6.3Unharvested crops.\n£600 per hectare.\n7.1Management of scrub (including tall herb communities).\n£55 per hectare.\n7.2Management of native or semi-natural woodland.\n£100 per hectare.\n8.1Management of a site of archaeological or historic interest.\n£80 per 0.25 hectare or part thereof up to 1.5 hectares and £80 per hectare thereafter or for crop-marked area sown to grass, £320 per hectare.\n9.1Conservation management plan with special measures for small units.\na.£45 per hectare (in-bye); or\nb.If a collective application covering a minimum of 4 crofts within the same crofting community, £55 per hectare (in-bye).\n9.2Retention or introduction of breeding cattle of native or traditional breed(s) in crofting areas (must be adopted in combination with prescription 9.1).\nIn addition to the aid payable under prescription 9.1–\na.If the croft supports a herd of cattle of traditional or native breed(s) for the duration of participation in the scheme, £5 per hectare (in-bye); or\nb.If a herd of cattle of traditional or native breed(s) is introduced to the croft by the end of the first plan year and numbers of any sheep on the croft reduced to ensure no increase in overall stocking density, £290 per hectare (in-bye).", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "ssi/2003/177", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "ssi/2003/177", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "ssi/2003/177", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003" }, { "type": "subst", "affecting": "ssi/2003/303", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2003" }, { "type": "subst", "affecting": "ssi/2004/109", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "ssi/2004/109", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "subst", "affecting": "ssi/2004/109", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "am", "affecting": "ssi/2004/109", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "ssi/2004/109", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "ssi/2004/109", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "subst", "affecting": "ssi/2004/109", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004" }, { "type": "subst", "affecting": "ssi/2005/620", "affecting_title": "The Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/300/schedule/4/part/I", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:29.268092+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." }