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Basic Payment Scheme

We provide advice and a comprehensive service in relation to the Basic Payment Scheme across both England and Scotland. We currently have over 500 existing clients, ranging from individual farmers and landowners through to large rural estates, and our client base is growing all the time.

Our services include:

  • Professional advice on all aspects of the Basic Payment Scheme, including cross-compliance
  • Resolving land registration and mapping issues
  • Resolving issues relating to Basic Payment entitlements
  • Transferring or acquiring Basic Payment entitlements
  • Corresponding on your behalf with the Rural Payments Agency / SGRPID in Scotland
  • Completing the Basic Payment Scheme annual claim form / Single Application Form in Scotland
  • Resolving conflicts between Environmental Stewardship and the Basic Payment Scheme
  • Expertise in Common Land issues
  • Checking claim and entitlements statements
  • Providing advice in relation to the Lump Sum Exit Payment

Scotland Only : advice on Land Managers’ Options (previously Land Management Contract Menu Scheme), Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme, Scottish Uplands Sheep Support Scheme and all other grant support schemes. Also advise on stocking levels required for less favoured area support schemes (LFASS)