Assessment Criteria - Integration

You can score a 'High' if the separate Options you have chosen complement one another.

As well as complement each other, to qualify for a 'high' rating under this criterion, each option selected should genuinely add value to the proposal and contribute to the selected regional priority in their own right.

For example:

  • Ensuring the location of newly created or enhanced field margin habitats (e.g. Axis 2 - Options 21, 33 and 35) such as hedges, beetle banks, woodlands and water margins are connected such that they create a network of joined-up habitat corridors allowing species to move between 'islands' of their supporting habitats.
  • Targeted use of organic manure on cropped land (e.g. under Axis 1 - Options 3 or 4) in tandem with expansion of a slurry store to handle the extra output from a new livestock building or enterprise (e.g. under Axis 1- Options 6 or 7).
  • Take up of training and staff development (under Axis 1 - Option 1) in order to operate a new piece of equipment (e.g. under Axis 1 - Option 12)
  • Management of a woodland (e.g. under Axis 2 - Options 45, 46 or 47) to produce timber suitable for chipping for new wood-fuel plant (e.g. under Axis 3 - Option 2).

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