Guidance
Annex 2a: List of Higher Tier multi-year options
Published 25 February 2021
Applies to England
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List includes the code, name and payment rate for each Higher Tier multi-year option.
| Code | Option Name | Option Payment Rate |
|---|---|---|
| AB1 | Nectar flower mix | £511 per hectare |
| AB2 | Basic overwinter stubble | £84 per hectare |
| AB3 | Beetle banks | £573 |
| AB4 | Skylark plots | £18 per hectare (£9 per plot, minimum 2 plots per hectare) |
| AB5 | Nesting plots for lapwing and stone curlew | £524 per hectare |
| AB6 | Enhanced overwinter stubble | £436 per hectare |
| AB7 | Whole crop cereals | £495 per hectare |
| AB8 | Flower-rich margins and plots | £539 per hectare |
| AB9 | Winter bird food | £640 per hectare |
| AB10 | Unharvested cereal headland | £640 per hectare |
| AB11 | Cultivated areas for arable plants | £532 per hectare |
| AB12 | Supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds | £632 per tonne (for every 2 hectares of winter bird food) |
| AB13 | Brassica fodder crop | £100 per hectare |
| AB14 | Harvested low input cereal | £266 per hectare |
| AB15 | Two year sown legume fallow | £522 per hectare |
| AB16 | Autumn sown bumblebird mix | £550 per hectare |
| BE1 | Protection of in-field trees on arable land | £420 per hectare |
| BE2 | Protection of in-field trees on intensive grassland | £190 per hectare |
| BE3 | Management of hedgerows | £8 per 100 meters for 1 side of a hedge |
| BE4 | Management of traditional orchard | £212 per hectare |
| BE5 | Creation of traditional orchards | £281 per hectare |
| BE6 | Veteran tree surgery | £221 per tree |
| BE7 | Supplement for restorative pruning of fruit trees | £62 per tree |
| CT1 | Management of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle | £217 per hectare |
| CT2 | Creation of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle on arable land and improved grassland | £314 per hectare |
| CT3 | Management of coastal saltmarsh | £77 per hectare |
| CT4 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on arable land | £442 per hectare |
| CT5 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat by non-intervention | £271 per hectare |
| CT6 | Coastal vegetation management supplement | £117 per hectare |
| CT7 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on intensive grassland | £276 per hectare |
| ED1 | Educational access | £290 per visit |
| GS1 | Take field corners out of management | £365 per hectare |
| GS2 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs (outside SDAs) | £95 per hectare |
| GS3 | Ryegrass seed-set as winter food for birds | £331 per hectare |
| GS4 | Legume and herb-rich swards | £309 per hectare |
| GS5 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs in SDAs | £16 per hectare |
| GS6 | Management of species-rich grassland | £182 per hectare |
| GS7 | Restoration towards species-rich grassland | £145 per hectare |
| GS8 | Creation of species-rich grassland | £267 per hectare |
| GS9 | Management of wet grassland for breeding waders | £264 per hectare |
| GS10 | Management of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £157 per hectare |
| GS11 | Creation of wet grassland for breeding waders | £406 per hectare |
| GS12 | Creation of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £310 per hectare |
| GS13 | Management of grassland for target features | £90 per hectare |
| GS14 | Creation of grassland for target features | £253 per hectare |
| GS15 | Haymaking supplement | £85 per hectare |
| GS16 | Rush infestation control supplement | £73 per hectare |
| GS17 | Lenient grazing supplement | £44 per hectare |
| HS1 | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings | £3.25 per square metre |
| HS2 | Take historic and archaeological features out of cultivation | £425 per hectare |
| HS3 | Reduced-depth, non-inversion cultivation on historic and archaeological features | £79 per hectare |
| HS4 | Scrub control on historic and archaeological features | £137 per hectare |
| HS5 | Management of historic and archaeological features on grassland | £30 per hectare |
| HS6 | Maintenance of designed / engineered water bodies | £440 per hectare |
| HS7 | Management of historic water meadows through traditional irrigation | £440 per hectare |
| HS8 | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings in remote areas | £6.73/ per square metre |
| HS9 | Restricted depth crop establishment to protect archaeology under an arable rotation | £174 per hectare |
| LH1 | Management of lowland heathland | £274 per hectare |
| LH2 | Restoration of forestry and woodland to lowland heathland | £184 per hectare |
| LH3 | Creation of heathland from arable or improved grassland | £517 per hectare |
| OP1 | Overwintered stubble | £116 per hectare |
| OP2 | Wild bird seed mixture | £640 per hectare |
| OP3 | Supplementary feeding for farmland birds | £494 per tonne (for every 2 hectares of wild bird seed mixture) |
| OP4 | Multi species ley | £115 per hectare |
| OP5 | Undersown cereal | £86 per hectare |
| OR1 | Organic conversion – improved permanent grassland | £75 per hectare |
| OR2 | Organic conversion – unimproved permanent grassland | £50 per hectare |
| OR3 | Organic conversion – rotational land | £175 per hectare |
| OR4 | Organic conversion – horticulture | £400 per hectare |
| OR5 | Organic conversion – top fruit | £450 per hectare |
| OT1 | Organic land management – improved permanent grassland | £40 per hectare |
| OT2 | Organic land management – unimproved permanent grassland | £20 per hectare |
| OT3 | Organic land management – rotational land | £65 per hectare |
| OT4 | Organic land management – horticulture | £200 per hectare |
| OT5 | Organic land management – top fruit | £300 per hectare |
| OT6 | Organic land management – enclosed rough grazing | £8 per hectare |
| SP1 | Difficult sites supplement | £62 per hectare |
| SP2 | Raised water level supplement | £127 per hectare |
| SP3 | Bracken control supplement | £153 per hectare |
| SP4 | Control of invasive plant species supplement | £324 per hectare |
| SP5 | Shepherding supplement | £7 per hectare |
| SP6 | Cattle grazing supplement | £45 per hectare |
| SP7 | Introduction of cattle grazing on the Scilly Isles | £279 per hectare |
| SP8 | Native breeds at risk supplement | £94 per hectare |
| SP9 | Threatened species supplement | £120 per hectare |
| SP10 | Administration of group managed agreements supplement | £6 per hectare |
| SW1 | 4-6m buffer strip on cultivated land | £353 per hectare |
| SW2 | 4-6m buffer strip on intensive grassland | £170 per hectare |
| SW3 | In-field grass strips | £557 per hectare |
| SW4 | 12-24m watercourse buffer strip on cultivated land | £512 per hectare |
| SW5 | Enhanced management of maize crops | £133 per hectare |
| SW6 | Winter cover crops | £114 per hectare |
| SW7 | Arable reversion to grassland with low fertiliser input | £311 per hectare |
| SW8 | Management of intensive grassland adjacent to a watercourse | £202 per hectare |
| SW9 | Seasonal livestock removal on intensive grassland | £88 per hectare |
| SW10 | Seasonal livestock removal on grassland in SDAs next to streams, rivers and lakes | £36 per hectare |
| SW11 | Riparian management strip | £440 per hectare |
| SW12 | Making space for water | £640 per hectare |
| SW13 | Very low nitrogen inputs to groundwaters | £251 per hectare |
| SW14 | Nil fertiliser supplement | £131 per hectare |
| SW15 | Flood mitigation on arable land | £488 per hectare |
| SW16 | Flood mitigation on permanent grassland | £256 per hectare |
| UP1 | Enclosed rough grazing | £39 per hectare |
| UP2 | Management of rough grazing for birds | £88 per hectare |
| UP3 | Management of moorland | £43 per hectare |
| UP4 | Management of moorland vegetation supplement | £10 per hectare |
| UP5 | Moorland re-wetting supplement | £18 per hectare |
| UP6 | Upland livestock exclusion supplement | £16 per hectare |
| WD1 | Woodland creation – maintenance payments | £200 per hectare |
| WD2 | Woodland improvement | £100 per hectare |
| WD3 | Woodland edges on arable land | £323 per hectare |
| WD4 | Management of wood pasture and parkland | Lowland payment rate (outside the SDA) £46 per hectare Upland payment rate (inside the SDA) £212 per hectare |
| WD5 | Restoration of wood pasture and parkland | Lowland payment rate (outside the SDA) £244 per hectare Upland payment rate (inside the SDA) £316 per hectare |
| WD6 | Creation of wood pasture | Lowland payment rate (outside the SDA) £409 per hectare Upland payment rate (inside the SDA) £333 per hectare |
| WD7 | Management of successional areas and scrub | £74 per hectare |
| WD8 | Creation of successional areas and scrub | £87 per hectare |
| WD9 | Livestock exclusion supplement – scrub and successional areas | £121 per hectare |
| WT1 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches in improved grassland | £201 per hectare |
| WT2 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches on arable land | £501 per hectare |
| WT3 | Management of ditches of high environmental value | £37 per 100 metres (for the management of both sides of the ditch) |
| WT4 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (100 sq m or less) | £103 per pond |
| WT5 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (more than 100 sq m) | £183 per pond |
| WT6 | Management of reed bed | £78 per hectare |
| WT7 | Creation of reed bed | £323 per hectare |
| WT8 | Management of fen | £39 per hectare |
| WT9 | Creation of fen | £446 per hectare |
| WT10 | Management of lowland raised bog | £164 per hectare |
| WT11 | Wetland cutting supplement | £440 per hectare |
| WT12 | Wetland grazing supplement | £304 per hectare |