SFI 2023 has been expanded to offer improved flexibility for farmers allowing them to choose what combination of ‘pick and mix’ actions they want to do and the area/length for each...
One of the drivers for the recent consultation on strengthening the legal framework for protecting hedges, on which we reported here, is the decoupling of the remaining BPS payments which means...
On 17 August, a day before the original deadline, we received an email from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) informing applicants that the Countryside Stewardship (CS) Mid-Tier application deadline had been...
“Measures to support housing delivery, the agricultural sector and economic growth have been proposed in a major Government consultation. These include, among others, amending Class Q and Class R permitted development...