18th November 2009, 02:57 PM
Plough damage is being addressed, to some extent, by agri-environment schemes. Natural England pays out a fairly large sum every year to revert arable use on Scheduled Sites to grassland. Easier when grain prices are low and the site has to be in Higher Level Stewardship. As class consent is for activity in the previous 6 years then, we hope, a lot of these sites will not be ploughed again in the foreseeable future.
Obviously there are a lot of Scheduled Monuments that won't come in to agri-environment schemes, although we can produce "single issue" agreements for SMs if that is the only bit of the holding that is of significant interest.
Obviously there are a lot of Scheduled Monuments that won't come in to agri-environment schemes, although we can produce "single issue" agreements for SMs if that is the only bit of the holding that is of significant interest.