Fowler VF
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Who is the letter from?
In my case RPA had contacted FC because I made a formal complaint to RPA about mishandling my 2015 BPS. As it turned out it was the local FC officer (who I knew anyway) who came out.
Suggest you start with your local FC office and have to hand as much original FC paperwork, including field numbers and the FC agreement and parcel numbers. They should be able to tell you and then write to you and confirm the status of your woodland, you have then got the evidence to send to RPA. I had to go through the exact same rigmarole when IACS went to SFP; to extract the written confirmation I asked FC if I was allowed to cut the trees down (obviously not), but this did concentrate their minds and so they wrote to tell me I couldn't because the FWPS agreement is 30 years despite the end of the FWPS payments. That was the evidence I needed.
You and I are not alone in this situation this time around as well!
My fields were FWPS, but I think WGS is pretty much the same. Again, this only works if you were receiving SFP on those fields from 2008 onwards.
In my case RPA had contacted FC because I made a formal complaint to RPA about mishandling my 2015 BPS. As it turned out it was the local FC officer (who I knew anyway) who came out.
Suggest you start with your local FC office and have to hand as much original FC paperwork, including field numbers and the FC agreement and parcel numbers. They should be able to tell you and then write to you and confirm the status of your woodland, you have then got the evidence to send to RPA. I had to go through the exact same rigmarole when IACS went to SFP; to extract the written confirmation I asked FC if I was allowed to cut the trees down (obviously not), but this did concentrate their minds and so they wrote to tell me I couldn't because the FWPS agreement is 30 years despite the end of the FWPS payments. That was the evidence I needed.
You and I are not alone in this situation this time around as well!
My fields were FWPS, but I think WGS is pretty much the same. Again, this only works if you were receiving SFP on those fields from 2008 onwards.