Capital Item | Standard Cost 1
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Badger gate installed in fence-lines across established run | £110 per gate |
Building/restoring drystane or flagstone dykes | £17.50 per square metre |
Chipping/mulching of trees debris + brash | £500 per hectare |
| Chemical eradication of rhododendron by foliar or stem injection | £1,000 per hectare of infested land. |
Conversion of deer fence to stock fence (in black grouse and capercaillie core areas) | £2 per metre |
Coppicing of hedge | £4.00 per metre |
Creation or restoration of a pond | £3.00 per square metre |
Dead wood management | £40 per hectare |
Deer fence | £7.25 per metre |
Ditch block with plastic piling dams - large | £280 per dam |
Ditch block with plastic piling dams - medium | £120 per dam. |
Ditch block with plastic piling dams - small | £60 per dam. |
Enhancing/modifying a deer fence (in black grouse and capercaillie core areas) | £5 per metre |
Enhancing/modifying a stock fence (in black grouse and capercaillie core areas) | £2 per metre |
| Environmental Audit | 50% of costs up to a maximum of £200 per plan |
Eradication of scrub/woody vegetation: heavy | £1250 per hectare |
Eradication of scrub/woody vegetation: intermediate | £850 per hectare |
Eradication of scrub/woody vegetation: light | £600 per hectare |
Fence removal | £2 per metre |
Forest Plan Preparation | £20 per hectare for first 200 hectares, £5 per hectare thereafter with a minimum payment of £400 and a maximum payment of £15,000 |
Gate a) For stock fence | £100 each |
Gate b) For deer fence | £170 each |
Heather management (in black grouse and/or capercaillie core areas) | £250 per hectare |
Heather track creation for bog management | £1.50/ metre |
Installation: water supply to water trough or pasture pump | £3 per metre of pipe laid |
Kissing gate/self-closing gate for non-vehicular access | £350 each |
Laying down species-rich grassland | £680 per hectare |
Laying of hedge | £8.00 per metre |
Manual eradication of rhododendron: Difficult access Medium infestation/access Light infestation/easy access | £9,500 per hectare of infested land £6,100 per hectare of infested land £4,500 per hectare of infested land |
Mechanised (and/or chemical) eradication of rhododendron: Difficult access Medium infestation/access Light infestation/easy access | £2,900 per hectare of infested land £2,400 per hectare of infested land £1,800 per hectare of infested lan |
Open range deer management | £3 per hectare of eligible deer range |
Peat Dam | £0.26 per metre of moor grip to be blocked with peat dams. Minimum payment £300. |
Planting of marram grass into areas threatened with erosion | £8 per square metre |
Planting or replanting of hedge | £4.30 per metre |
Post + rail fence | £10 per metre |
Pre-commercial + non commercial woodland thinning | £150 per hectare |
Primary treatment of bracken | £200 per hectare of infested land |
Provision of bat or bird box | £15.00 per box |
Provision: water trough to replace traditional water points | £195 each |
Rabbit proofing - existing or new stock/deer fence | £1.90 per metre |
Removal from site of cut shrub/woody vegetation: heavy | £1,450 per hectare |
Removal from site of cut shrub/woody vegetation: intermed. | £1,050 per hectare |
Removal from site of cut shrub/woody vegetation: light | £500 per hectare |
Removal of tree crop to waste 3m - 6m high | £1,100 per hectare |
Replace/new sgl trees in Designed Landscape or to enhance | £100 per tree |
Respace natural regeneration | £600 per hectare |
Sand blow fencing | £10.00 per metre |
Scare or temporary fencing | £1.50 per metre |
Seedling tree removal | £35 per hectare |
Small-scale tree and shrub planting | £2 per tree or shrub |
Small-scale woodland thinning | £300 per hectare |
Soil analysis (including sampling) | £24.90 per sample |
Stile | £55 each |
Stock bridge for bog management - large | £620 per bridge |
Stock bridge for bog management - small | £170 per bridge |
Stock Fence | £4.00 per metre |
Underdrain (or culvert) breaking | £20 per drain (or culvert) broken |
Upgrade stock to deer fence | £2.75 per metre |
| Vole guard/small tree protector | £0.23 per vole guard/small tree protector |
Water trough pump: cattle-operated pasture or nose | £180 per installed pump |
Watercourse channel enhancement | £4.00 per linear metre of watercourse |
Woodland clearance - felling and extraction | £1375 per hectare |
Woodland clearance - felling to waste | £975 per hectare |
Woodland deer impact reduction | £30 per hectare for deer control during the first 5 years of a Deer Management Plan |