Natural England

This page gives information about the approach to the governance, strategy and delivery of land management, and in particular agri-environment, schemes in the South West region. It incorporates guidance on Environmental Stewardship delivery. This information is for potential applicants for Higher Level Stewardship, current agreement holders, and farming and environmental partners and stakeholders.

Priorities up to September 2008

• Agreements which will help put in place the management required to achieve target condition on SSSIs
• High quality applications leading to multi-objective agreements, especially from High Priority Areas

Environmental Stewardship Targeting and Prioritisation: briefing for stakeholders, September 2007 [44 kb]

South West Higher Level Stewardship Priority Targeting

Natural England is moving to a spatial approach to delivering Higher Level Stewardship and is mapping the country to establish which land holdings will provide the most environmental benefit with the funds available. The maps will be operational in October 2008. Details of the different phases to this approach can be seen below.

Phase 1

Phase 2