Hedge cutting deadline 2024

[benny6910]

Has the rule been relaxed for this year for stopping cutting on the last day of February? Just been told it may have been due to eu law running out last year?

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Few people have said this to me. With how green and environmentally friendly we are all meant to be becoming, I absolutely cannot see the relaxation of a rule to aid wildlife!

Stick to the same. A few days into March never hurts but I can’t see people rushing out with trimmers in June!

 

[Nearly]

Video yourself walking the route and asking dickie birds not to build their nest until you've trimmed that hedge.

 

[Will 1594]

Video yourself walking the route and asking dickie birds not to build their nest until you've trimmed that hedge.

next year will be ok
all the birds will be in the 000000 of acres of feeding fields been sown

 

[Still Farming]

So wet to get on the land is there many hedges left to cut before 1st March Deadline??

 

[benny6910]

So wet to get on the land is there many hedges left to cut before 1st March Deadline??

I’ve got quite a few but they were all done last year so they can wait till September I don’t want to make a mess for the sake of it.

 

[Bury the Trash]

tried last week and made more mess than im happy with got a couple of better best draining fields/firmer ground and roads left knock them off mon/tues then call it a day i think, its been very wet since October but relatively mild and the buds on somethings like the Elm are breaking out ,saps beginning to rise so its naturally time to stop for us anyway.
leave what s not done till next season .

 

[Hindsight]

Has the rule been relaxed for this year for stopping cutting on the last day of February? Just been told it may have been due to eu law running out last year?

Was it ever an EU law? That is the more important question you should seek to answer.

 

[Brisel]

EU law was instantly turned into UK law by the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2023

Hedgerow Regulations suggests that 1st march - 31st August is still the closed period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/countryside-hedgerows-regulation-and-management

 

[Bury the Trash]

my non farmer neighbour trims his quite long garden hedge all year round at anytime 2 or 3 times. hes is an obsessive about things mind you.
Certainly No friend of wild birds on the quiet , he once knocked down a swallows nest in his out building because he didnt want them there. .
but to anyone else or his so called friends butter wouldnt melt in his pc mouth...

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Not done the fields yet been to wet ,just the road side

 

[Post Driver]

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2024-0012/CDP-2024-0012.pdf

Page 4, paragraph 3

"While the BPS ended in 2023, in the transition period farmers are eligible for
‘de-linked payments’ based on their BPS payments in 2020-22. However,
from January 2024, farmers no longer need to adhere to the cross
compliance rules, including those on hedgerow management, in order to
receive funding."


Still governed by the Hedgerow Regulations and Wildlife and Conservation Act, so can't do as you please

 

[yellow belly]

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2024-0012/CDP-2024-0012.pdf

Page 4, paragraph 3

"While the BPS ended in 2023, in the transition period farmers are eligible for
‘de-linked payments’ based on their BPS payments in 2020-22. However,
from January 2024, farmers no longer need to adhere to the cross
compliance rules, including those on hedgerow management, in order to
receive funding."


Still governed by the Hedgerow Regulations and Wildlife and Conservation Act, so can't do as you please

As I understand it the gov are consulting about hedge management but have not announced an extension of the hedge cutting bans

I understand that the nfu was trying to get hedgecutting allowed in august ( which would be the most sensible time to cut hedges in a wet year)

any one in stewardship agreements will still have hedge cutting rules

 

[Bury the Trash]

As I understand it the gov are consulting about hedge management but have not announced an extension of the hedge cutting bans

I understand that the nfu was trying to get hedgecutting allowed in august ( which would be the most sensible time to cut hedges in a wet year)

any one in stewardship agreements will still have hedge cutting rules

surely i think It wont help with that if people go on trimming through march pushing it.

and even mid August would help on heavy ground.

 

[yellow belly]

surely i think It wont help with that if people go on trimming through march pushing it.

and even mid August would help on heavy ground.

The big problem with winter cutting is that this century we have very rarely had enough hard frost to travel even on buffer strips and permenant grass on heavy land without severe soil damage

 

[Lofty1984]

So wet to get on the land is there many hedges left to cut before 1st March Deadline??

Still got a fair few left

 

[Nearly]

Do the birds know it's a leap year?

 

[YELROM]

Do the birds know it's a leap year?

They will do when I rattle over the top of them with a hedge cutter on Thursday

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Do the birds know it's a leap year?

Surprising that some (redacted) oik in a suit hasn't appeared making a speech about how he's "got our back" and has made sure that there is an extra day for poor farmers to cut there hedges on account of the wet weather.

Edit :- word fat removed

 

[Widgetone]

Surprising that some fat oik in a suit hasn't appeared making a speech about how he's "got our back" and has made sure that there is an extra day for poor farmers to cut there hedges on account of the wet weather.

I don't know how our Rishi can be described as fat, and that remark is fatophobic surely