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You must use the Rural Land Register (RLR) to register agricultural land.

You can register any type of land or property with HM Land Registry.

You must register your land with both the RLR and HM Land Registry to claim from most land-based funding schemes, including:

• Environmental Stewardship schemes
• the English Woodland Grant Scheme

What to register

You only need to register land that you want to claim payments on. This includes land that:

• you farm
• qualifies for land-based payment schemes, for example because it has environmental value

What you鈥檒l get

You鈥檒l get a complete set of maps showing your registered land.

Customer registration

You need to register as a customer with the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) before you register your land. You鈥檒l need to tell them:

• the name and address of your business
• who is legally responsible for your business
• the address of your land, including the grid reference or postcode
• who your main contact person should be and what powers they should have

The main contact person can be yourself, a person legally responsible for your business or someone independent (an agent).

You can give an agent full powers (empowerment) to deal with your land registration or partial powers (for example, they can access information but not change it).

The Rural Payments Agency has produced a leaflet about the different levels of empowerment you can give your contact person.

Call the RPA to give this information for the first time or change existing contact details for your business.

You鈥檒l receive a Single Business Identifier for your business, and each person will get a Personal Identifier. You鈥檒l need these to register your land.

Landlords and tenants

Either the landlord or the tenant can register land on the Rural Land Register, but the land can only be registered once.

However, it鈥檚 possible for the landlord to claim funds under one land scheme and their tenant to claim under another.

You can use the RLE1 form to:

• register new land for the first time
• make changes to land already on the Rural Land Register, for example if the boundaries change or if you sell the land to someone else

Fill in the form and post it to the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). You can either download the form below or ask the RPA to send you a pre-printed copy.

You also need to enclose a map with a visible scale if you鈥檙e registering land for the first time, or if your boundaries have changed. Mark your land boundaries clearly with a fine-tipped pen.

Contacting the RPA

The Rural Land Register only covers land in England.

If your land is in more than one country, you鈥檒l need to register each piece of land separately for each country.

Contact the Rural Payments Agency if you have land in more than one country and have questions about your land in England.

Use the numbers below if you have land in more than one country and have questions about land in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales.

Land in Scotland

Land in Northern Ireland

Land in Wales

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