UK: Countryside

United Kingdom
26/11/1999
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A consultation document describing MAFF’s proposals for protecting and retaining for the future the environmental benefits of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme when the agreements come to an end has been issued for comments. The first agreements under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme, set up in 1991, come to the end of their ten year life in 2001. It is proposed that all agreements should be offered renewal where they have achieved their objectives or where benefits are still being accrued, providing that an environmental value will be obtained. It is proposed that renewals should not be in competition with new applications and that sufficient funds should be set aside for the continuation of existing agreements. Major expansion of existing agreements should be considered as new applications in competition with others, however, small adjustments should be dealt with as part of the renewal process. Renewal agreements, to be offered in April 2001, will come into force in October 2001.
(MAFF, August 1999)

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