Subsidy, Stewardship & Farm Matters

Richard Turner & Son are able to provide professional advice regarding all aspects of the basic payment scheme and environmental schemes (old and new). This includes Countryside Stewardship, Capital Grant Schemes, Hedgerow and Boundary Grants, Countryside Productivity Schemes and the Historic Higher Level and Entry-Level Stewardship. We offer assistance with applications, entitlements, annual claims, capital works claims as well as land transfers and amendments.

At present, we are trusted by over 500 existing basic payment scheme clients across our three offices in the North West of England, with clients ranging from individual farmers and landowners to rural estates. Our experienced team possesses the expertise and knowledge to provide comprehensive advice on Scheme Registration, entitlements (including national reserve applications), land mapping issues, land and entitlement transfers, completion of annual claims/applications, the Young Farmer Scheme, checking claim statements and entitlement status as well as Cross-Compliance and Greening requirements. For anybody looking to take land or farms on longer-term agreements we can prepare business plans and budgets to support tenancy and contract farming tenders. Richard Turner & Son can also handle short term land occupation arrangements from finding occupiers to managing existing agreements.