by Giles Chaplin | May 12, 2018 | Agriculture
DEFRA has confirmed that the original deadline of the 15th May 2018 for the submission of CSS annual claims has been moved to the 15th June. This move comes as many applicants are still to receive their offer letters for CSS Mid-Tier schemes which had a theoretical...
by Giles Chaplin | Apr 28, 2018 | Agriculture
Here at Lister Haigh our current mind-set is primarily focused towards the Basic Payment Scheme Deadline of 15th May, with over 1.6 Million land parcels having being re-mapped this year our agricultural team is certainly being kept busy. Another important deadline not...
by Giles Chaplin | Apr 14, 2018 | Agriculture
Natural England has recently launched a new standalone grant for the restoration of traditional farm buildings in The Yorkshire Dales National Park and a number of other National Parks across the country. The grant which works on a first come first served basis...
by Giles Chaplin | Mar 31, 2018 | Agriculture
Further to our news article in February we are receiving a modest number of instructions for the previously popular Hedgerows and Boundaries Capital Grant Scheme, this year with an increased limit of £10,000. The scheme offers grants for drystone wall restoration,...
by Giles Chaplin | Mar 17, 2018 | Agriculture
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has this week opened its application window for 2018 with the usual 15th May deadline for submission. Due to the RPA undertaking a number of “proactive land changes” in 2017 (see our website article 20th January 2018) a number of...
by Giles Chaplin | Mar 17, 2018 | Agriculture
From the 2nd April 2018 a new set of rules are being introduced to comply with the EU Water Framework Directive and will be enforced by the Environment Agency. These new rules set a baseline of good practice across agriculture covering the use of manures &...
by Giles Chaplin | Mar 17, 2018 | Agriculture
From the 6th April a number of changes to permitted development rights will come into effect. You will be allowed to put up a larger agricultural building of up to 1,000sq m rather than 465sq m under the amended permitted development rights. This will be a significant...
by Giles Chaplin | Mar 3, 2018 | Agriculture
From January 2018 onwards RPA inspectors performing cross compliance cattle inspections (SMR 7) will have the information and details of any late notifications of cattle births, deaths and movements recorded in 2018. The inspectors will ask the cattle keeper for the...
by Giles Chaplin | Mar 3, 2018 | Agriculture
Lister Haigh marketed 21.54 acres of grassland at Warsill, near Harrogate at the end of January with a Guide Price of £185,000. Given the large amount of interest in the property ‘Best & Final Offers’ were requested by the 23rd February and a total of 9 offers...
by Giles Chaplin | Feb 17, 2018 | Agriculture
Description- This sits as the larger version of the previously mentioned Small Grant Scheme and provides grants between £35,000 and £1,000,000 for 40% of eligible costs and is aimed at farmers making large scale investments (minimum spend £87,500) in projects that...
