The Rural Stewardship Scheme

A1 Appendices

aerial photo

Photo: P&A Macdonald - SNH

Appendix 1: Contact Details

1. SEERAD Area Offices
Ayr Russell House, King Street Ayr KA8 0BE Tel: 01292 610188	Elgin 32 Reidhaven Street Elgin IV3 1VE Tel: 01856 875444
Benbecula Balivanich Isle of Benbecula HS7 5LA Tel: 01870 602346	Galashiels Cotgreen Road Galashiels TD1 3SG Tel: 01896 758333
Central Area Office Strathearn House Broxden Business Park Lamberkine Drive Perth PH1 1RZ Tel: 01738 602000	Hamilton Cadzow Court 3 Wellhall Road Hamilton ML3 9BG Tel: 01698 281166
Dumfries 161 Brooms Road Dumfries DG1 3ES Tel: 01387 255292	Inverness Longman House 28 Longman Road Inverness IV1 1SF Tel: 01463 234141

1. SEERAD Area Offices (continued)
Inverurie Thainstone Court By Inverurie Aberdeenshire AB51 5YA Tel: 01467 626222	Oban Cameron House Albany Street Oban PA34 4AE Tel: 01631 563071
Kirkwall Tankerness Lane Kirkwall Orkney KW15 1AQ Tel: 01343 547514	Portree Estates Office Portree Isle of Skye IV51 9DH Tel: 01478 612516
Lairg Ord Croft Lairg Sutherland IV27 4AZ Tel: 01549 402167	Stornoway 10 Keith Street Stornoway Isle of Lewis HS1 2QG Tel: 01851 702392
Lerwick Charlotte House Commercial Road Lerwick Shetland ZE1 0HZ Tel: 01631 563071	Thurso Strathbeg House Clarence Street Thurso KW14 7JS Tel: 01847 893104

2. SNH Main Area Offices
North Areas - Northern Isles Ground Floor Stewart Building Alexandra Wharf Lerwick Shetland ZE1 0LL Tel: 01595 693345	East Areas - Tayside & Clackmannanshire Battleby Redgorton Perth PH1 3EW Tel: 01738 444177
North Areas - Western Isles 32 Francis Street Stornoway Isle of Lewis HS1 2ND Tel: 01851 705258	East Areas - Forth & Borders Laundry House Dalkeith Country Park Dalkeith Midlothian EH22 2NA Tel: 0131 654 2466
North Areas - North Highland Main Street Golspie Sutherland KW10 6TG Tel: 01408 633602	West Areas - Argyll & Stirling The Beta Centre Innovation Park University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4NF Tel: 01786 450362
North Areas - West Highland The Governer's House The Parade Fort William Inverness-shire PH33 6BA Tel: 01397 704716	West Areas Strathclyde & Ayrshire Caspian House Mariner Court Clydebank Business Park Clydebank G81 2NR Tel: 0141 951 4488
North Areas - East Highland Fodderty Way Dingwall Business Park Dingwall IV15 9XB Tel: 01349 865333	West Areas - Dumfries & Galloway Carmont House The Crichton Bankend Road Dumfries DG1 4ZF Tel: 01387 247010
East Areas - Grampian 16/17 Rubislaw Terrace Aberdeen AB1 1XE Tel: 01224 64286

3. National Monuments Record of Scotland

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
John Sinclair House
16 Bernard Terrace
Edinburgh
EH8 9NX
Tel: 0131 622 1456
Fax: 0131 622 1477

4. Historic Scotland

Longmore House
Salisbury Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1SH
Tel: 0131 668 8600

5. Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Erskine Court
The Castle Business Park
Stirling
FK9 4TR
Tel: 01786 457700

6. Forestry Commission

National Office for Scotland
231 Corstorphine Road
Edinburgh
EH12 7AR
Tel: 0131 334 0303

Appendix 2: Conditions Relating to the Aerial Application of Asulam for Bracken Treatment Under the Rural Stewardship Scheme

An obligation is placed upon anyone undertaking aerial application of pesticides to seek consents from SEPA, the Local Water Authority, SNH and the Local Authority Environmental Services.

Prior to aerial spraying, the applicant, or a person designated on the applicant's behalf, is required to:

Consult SEPA at least 72 hours prior to aerial spraying if the application is to be made within 250 metres of any water. It is the responsibility of SEPA to consult with the Local Water Authority on the applicant's behalf.
Consult SNH at least 72 hours prior to aerial spraying if the land to be treated lies within a designated conservation site or within 1500 metres of one.
Give notice of the intended aerial application to Local Authority Environmental Services not less than 24 hours and not more than 48 hours before the proposed application.
Give notice of the intended aerial application to local beekeepers and potentially affected schools, hospitals and other institutions.

SEPA have now produced a standard multi-agency application form that can be used to notify and seek consent from each statutory consultee. Applicants can obtain this form from the local SEPA office.

As soon as the Scheme participant has prepared the detailed BEP Management Plan, the standard multi-agency application form should be completed and submitted (with a copy of the BEP Management Plan scale map showing the area(s) to be treated) to SEPA and copies sent to SNH and the Local Authority Environmental Services. . It is now SEPA's responsibility to consult with the Water Authority and it has been agreed that this will entail SEPA sending the local Water Authority office a copy of the completed multi-agency application form. In practice, it will usually be the contractor who submits the forms to these statutory consultees. The applicant, or person designated on the applicant's behalf, will need to allow the consultees at least 15 working days (21 calendar days) to consider and respond to the application for consent. In its letter of consent, SNH will indicate whether or not it is attaching a revised BEP Management Plan map; any revised map should be clearly marked as such, then certified and dated by the SNH officer responsible for its revision. Letters of consent, the final version of the BEP Management Plan with SNH-approved map must be submitted to SEERAD with the properly completed claim for the first year's BEP management payment. Such a claim cannot be considered valid unless accompanied by the required documentation. Once these consents have been secured and submitted to SEERAD, the applicant (or contractor) then only requires to contact SEPA and the Local Authority Environmental Services orally no less than 24 hours before spraying operations are due to begin.

Appendix 3: Glossary of Terms

AAPS Eligible land	Land registered as eligible to receive payments under the Arable Area Payments Scheme
Agriculture	Includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock breeding or keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadowland, osier land, reed beds, market gardens and nursery grounds
Arable land	(i) Land on which an arable crop is growing or has been planted or (ii) Which is lying fallow as part of a normal crop rotation (including short-term leys) or (iii) Set-aside land and which has been land within the meaning of (i) and (ii)
Breeding cow	A cow that forms part of a herd either used for rearing calves for meat production or used for milk production and has borne a calf.
Breeding Ewe	A female sheep that is at least one year old on the 1 ^st of January preceding the application for grant and which is kept in a breeding flock
Force majeure	Abnormal or unforeseeable circumstances beyond your control, the consequences of which you could not avoid by reasonable action.
Improved grassland	Land used for grazing where over one third of the sward comprises, singly or in mixture, ryegrass, coxsfoot or timothy Or Land that has been improved by management practices such as liming and top dressing where there is not a significant presence of sensitive plant species indicative of native unimproved grassland
Inbye land	That part of the farm not comprising the hill and rough grazings, the bulk of which is used for arable and grassland production
Moorland	Land with predominantly semi-natural upland vegetation or comprising predominantly rock outcrops and semi-natural upland vegetation used primarily for rough grazing
Over-grazing	Grazing land with livestock in such numbers as adversely to affect the growth, quality or species composition of vegetation (other than vegetation normally grazed to destruction) on that land to a significant degree.
Pesticides	Herbicides, insecticides or fungicides
Poaching	The trampling or treading of the ground surface by livestock resulting in permanent damage to the vegetation
Rough grazings	Land containing semi-natural vegetation including heathland, heather moorland, bog and rough grassland used or suitable for use as grazing
Unimproved grassland	Inbye land used for grazing or mowing which is not normally treated with mineral fertiliser or lime and does not constitute either improved grassland or rough grazing

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