Guidance

How to make a capital or revenue claim for Countryside Stewardship

Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or using a claim form.

From:
Rural Payments Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Forestry Commission, and Natural England
Published
18 March 2021
Last updated
115 JuneJanuary 20222023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Countryside Stewardship annual revenue claims are closed

Thecurrently final deadline to submit your annual revenue claim was midnight on 10 June 2022.closed.

Claims received after 10 June 2022 will be rejected (apart from cases accepted as force majeure and exceptional circumstances).

CapitalMake claimsa capital claim

You can submit a capital claim at any time of year. However, this must be:

  • within 3 months of the end of your agreement - a late claim reduction will apply if the claim is received between 3 and 6 months
  • after the capital work is finished
  • after you have paidbeen forcharged itor and the money has left your back accountinvoiced

All the information you need to know about Countryside Stewardship capital claims is in the relevant scheme manual.

Make a claim online

You can claim online using the Rural Payments service. Once you’ve signed in, select ‘View business’ then scroll down the business overview to ‘Countryside Stewardship claims’.

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You can then use the on-screen ‘Help’ link to take you through each process step-by-step.

Make a claim by email or post

If you’re unable to claim online, callyou’ll usneed to contact RPA by phone or email to request a Countryside Stewardship capital claim form.

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How

Send to return your completed form

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Contact us

Rural Payments Agency


(Countryside Stewardship)
PO Box 324
Worksop
S95 1DF

Email

Email: ruralpayments@defra.gov.uk

Tel:

Telephone: 03000 200 301

Opening
Monday times: 8:30am to 5pm,Friday, Monday8am to Friday5pm (excluding public holidays)

Find out about call charges at www.gov.uk/call-charges

Published 18 March 2021
Last updated 115 JuneJanuary 20222023 + show all updates

  1. Page now explains how you can make an online claim using on-screen help and links to guidance for making a claim by email or post.

  2. Closure of Countryside Stewardship annual revenue claims for 2022.

  3. Updated for CS revenue claims opening on 15 March 2022.

  4. Added link to Countryside Stewardship revenue payment rates from 1 January 2022. Removed information about rotational options.

  5. The revenue claim summary has been updated to show land parcel reference numbers in the rotational options section (Section3).

  6. Edited news to confirm CS revenue claims have closed for 2021. Removed out of date updates.

  7. Edited the information about the deadline for receiving claims as the 17 May deadline has now passed. Removed outdated information about additional helpline dates.

  8. Update call out box to include message about additional helpline opening hours.

  9. Detail added to explain that currently the rotational option section (secton 3) in the revenue claim summary does not contain any land parcel reference numbers. To also explain what to do until 20 July when this will be updated.

  10. RPA opening hours between Thursday 1 April and Tuesday 6 April.

  11. First published.

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