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Guidance: How to leave your Higher Level Stewardship agreement early to apply for Countryside Stewardship

Rural Payments Agency

July 10
09:40 2023

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Use this guidance alongside the 3 options tables to help you decide if you want to leave your existing ES HLS agreement, without repayment, to apply for another land management scheme.

You must make a valid CS application to do this, and the new scheme must be of equivalent or greater environmental value than the HLS component of your existing ES agreement.

You still need to meet the scheme rules and deadlines of your HLS agreement until you receive and accept a new CS agreement offer, and your HLS agreement is closed.

Published 8 March 2023
Last updated 10 July 2023 +show all updates
  1. Updated text to reflect the deadline to submit form 'Intention to move between land management schemes' has passed.

  2. Updated the guidance with scheme specific instructions dependent on the customer choosing to leave HLS for CS Higher Tier or CS Mid Tier.

  3. First published.

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