Fencing grants ??
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Mad For Muck
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- Midlands
Easy, as long as you meet the criteria & get the spec right, we’re in the process of doing over 12000m through a grant
Do you install yourself or employ a contractor?
- Location
- Northumberland
You don't give your location. In England No standalone fencing grants.- unless anyone knows different.
Part of countryside stewardship scheme. - or whatever it's called this year. Usually to protect hedges or keep livestock out of watercourses
If you are not familiar with these schemes best seek guidance from a land agent
Part of countryside stewardship scheme. - or whatever it's called this year. Usually to protect hedges or keep livestock out of watercourses
If you are not familiar with these schemes best seek guidance from a land agent
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- Northumberland
Either are acceptable under the schemes. The grant is usually on a standard cost basis. I think fencing is about £9 metre. That's what you get paid regardless of how much it's cost you
Mad For Muck
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- Midlands
We do it all ourselves, as above you can use a contractor but we found what they want to charge you just to erect the fence if we supplied the materials was very near the grant £/m the grant pays. Not knocking them but at the end of the day the way we’re doing it the grant money covers a lot more of the cost rather than just paying the contractors bill
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- Northumberland
The OP names him / her self ? Newbie. So maybe not much experience of fencing.
In that situation I would hire a contractor to do part of the job, maybe the bit with all the bends on the bankside .
Then decide if i could do the rest of the job to a decent standard.
How did you convince them that 12km of fencing was a worthwhile government spend?
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
In Wales here, two years ago I paid for someone to lay a hedge (with my help), I put up a fence, all grant aided. In the end it cost me about the same as me just putting up a new fence, but I got a lovely laid hedge out of it. If I had spent a week extra laying the hedge I would have got it all for free.
Big farm!Must be alongside HS2.
Apparently I cant receive the grant at the moment due to being new to the industry , painful
I need to be registered with Rural payments which is no longer available and no possibly to register, so waiting for changes via Deffra maybe towards the summer apparently
If anyone has any other info would be much appreciated
I need to be registered with Rural payments which is no longer available and no possibly to register, so waiting for changes via Deffra maybe towards the summer apparently
If anyone has any other info would be much appreciated
Think you have been given duff information. Fence and hedge is under Countryside Stewardship, all you need is a cph number, it is the SFI which is only open to historic recipients of BPS.
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- Northumberland
RPA seem to need a sbi number for most schemes
Don't pay said consultants invoice. You only need to have been claiming BPS to qualify for SFI. CPH - and as said above SBI number - all you need for CS. Both free and easy to get.