What you must do to get paid for this CSHT action and advice on how to do it.

To apply for this action, you’ll need:

consent from Natural England for any activity on land designated as a site of special scientific interest (SSSI)

a Forestry Commission approved woodland management plan

Scheduled Monument Consent from Historic England for any work on scheduled monuments

to get a felling licence from the Forestry Commission to carry out some activities in this action

You may need to:

get advice from your Forestry Commission woodland officer if you have other archaeological or historic features on your agreement land

get a wildlife licence from Natural England if your activities affect a protected species or their habitat

All archaeological and historic features (including scheduled monuments) are identified in your Historic Environment Farm Environment Record (HEFER).

If you’re a tenant, it’s your responsibility to check whether your tenancy agreement allows you to complete what’s required in the actions you choose. You may need your landlord’s consent.

Defra and its delivery bodies, including Natural England and the Forestry Commission, exempt itself of any and all liability in the event of wildfire. Wildfires are necessarily unpredictable events and Defra and its delivery bodies aim to minimise the likelihood of them occurring (or the damage of the same if such an event occurs) but do not and cannot exclude the possibility of a wildfire taking place. The condition of your land and its susceptibility to the risk of wildfire is a matter for which you as a farmer or landowner are solely responsible and liable.

For the avoidance of doubt, Defra and its delivery bodies shall not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss nor for any of the following (whether direct or indirect): loss of property, loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of data, damage to profit, loss of use, loss of production, loss of contract, loss of commercial opportunity, loss of business, harm to reputation, or loss of goodwill and/or wasted expenditure.

You must keep evidence to show what you have done to complete this action. If it’s not clear that you have done this action in a way that could reasonably be expected to achieve its aim, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) may ask for this evidence. You must supply the evidence if they ask for it.

CES6 pays £861.00 per year.

Same as base action.

This information is provided by Farmwalk based on published government guidance. Always check the latest guidance on GOV.UK.