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You need to register all the land parcels you want to include in an application for rural payments on the Rural Payments service. This includes funding schemes that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) administers, such as the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), Countryside Stewardship (CS) Higher Tier and Capital Grants.

Before you register land

You cannot register land or request updates to land details until you鈥檝e registered on the Rural Payments service.鈥�

Find out about registering on the Rural Payments service.

If a land parcel is already registered with the RPA, you should use the 鈥榓dd land鈥� service to link registered land to your single business identifier (SBI).

What land to register

You must register all agricultural and non-agricultural land parcels to apply for rural payments.

A land parcel is an area of land that is both:

• surrounded by a permanent boundary
• 0.01 hectares or more

For each land parcel, you need to register:

• the total area in hectares, which is set by its permanent boundary (see 鈥楶ermanent boundaries鈥�)
• permanent agricultural and non-agricultural areas or features, known as 鈥榣and covers鈥�, which are at least 0.01 hectares (see 鈥楢gricultural and non-agricultural land covers鈥�)

鈥楶ermanent鈥� means you expect the boundary or land cover to be present for at least 3 years.

Permanent boundaries

Permanent boundaries include:

• fixed fences (not temporary electric fences)
• walls
• earth banks or stone-faced hedgebanks
• hedgerows
• lines of trees
• watercourses, such as ditches, rivers and streams
• changes in land cover which are clearly visible on the ground, such as woodland next to permanent grassland
• roads or man-made surfaced tracks (also known as 鈥榤etalled鈥� tracks)
• marker posts or boundary stones
• the extent of common land that鈥檚 registered under or the
• a national boundary: RPA will split a land parcel that鈥檚 in more than one part of the UK and give it a separate parcel ID

Permanent boundaries are not:

• temporary boundaries, such as temporary electric fencing, plough lines or buffer strips
• unsurfaced tracks or paths (also known as 鈥榥atural surface鈥� tracks)
• different cropping splits within a land parcel
• areas within a land parcel that are occupied by different people
• ownership boundaries, where areas within a land parcel are owned by different people but there鈥檚 no physical boundary
• underground drains which are not visible on the ground
• administrative boundaries, such as parish boundaries
• grid lines on an Ordnance Survey (OS) map

Agricultural and non-agricultural land covers

You need to register all agricultural and non-agricultural land covers in a land parcel.

Land cover describes the physical nature of the land. There are 3 agricultural land covers:

• arable land
• permanent grassland
• permanent crops

There are also a number of non-agricultural land covers, such as farmyards and farm buildings.

A land parcel may have a single land cover or multiple land covers.

The RPA only registers land covers on your digital maps, not the land use codes you declare separately when making an application for rural payments.

The rural payments scheme you want to apply for will have guidance about the different land covers and eligible land uses. You must read the relevant scheme guidance.

How to register a land parcel

The Rural Payments service is the quickest and most secure way to register land. Read the guidance Rural Payments service: how to register land and update digital maps.

If you are unable to use the Rural Payments service, use the RLE1 form instead. Read the guidance RLE1 form: how to register land and update digital maps.

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