This item is part of Capital Grants 2026. You must read the Capital Grants 2026 guidance to understand the rules and how to apply.
\nIf you’re applying for this item as part of a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) application, you must read the CSHT applicant’s guide to understand the rules and how to apply.
£72 per square metre (m2).
\n\nReducing the mixing of urine and faeces on livestock housing floors and the rapid removal of the urine will limit the chemical reactions that release ammonia into the air. This helps improve air quality and the natural environment.
\n\nLow emission floors are typically used with suitable slurry scrapers to r educe the surface area of slurry exposed to the air, so reducing ammonia emissions.
\n\nIf you have support from a Catchment Sensitive Farming adviser, you can use this item on:
\n\nholdings targeted for the reduction of ammonia emissions from agriculture – your Catchment Sensitive Farming adviser will tell you this
\nlivestock buildings with solid or slatted floors in slurry-based livestock housing
\nCatchment Sensitive Farming provides advice where there’s water quality, air quality or flood risk issues linked to farming.
\n\nYou cannot use this item if:
\n\nYou must:
\n\nYou must also install flooring that’s specifically designed to reduce ammonia emissions by at least 25% compared to conventional flooring. The manufacturer’s technical specification should show the ammonia emission factor (EF) or percentage ammonia emissions reduction. It must be verified by a published peer-reviewed research paper, official European design standard or a testing system report (for example an RAV official test reference number).
\n\nYou must use flooring that’s suitable for:
\n\nYou should:
\n\nIn cattle housing, install flooring that separates urine from faeces effectively and quickly directs the urine away to storage. You must scrape the floor:
\n\nInstall partially slatted flooring that’s designed with a slat shape, surface and openings. This will increase the speed of slurry and urine drainage to an underfloor storage pit or to channels fitted with scrapers for the rapid removal of slurry. Reduce air flow over the slatted area.
\n\nYou must keep written support from your Catchment Sensitive Farming adviser and provide with your application.
\n\nYou must keep and provide with your claim:
\n\nYou must also keep and provide on request:
\n\nRead the record keeping and site visit requirements in the Agreement holder’s guide: Capital Grants, Higher Tier capital grants and Protection and Infrastructure grants for more information.
\n\nIf you’re applying for this item as part of a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) application, you must read the record keeping and site visit requirements in the CSHT agreement holder’s guide.
\n\nThe following advice may help you to use this item, but you do not have to follow it to get paid.
\n\nThere are different types of slurry scraper. You should install one suitable for the type of floor installed, such as an automatic slurry scraper with a toothed rubber blade for grooved rubber flooring.
\n\nProduct manufacturers may specify you use a scraper specifically designed for use with their flooring product to make sure the flooring:
\n\nIn pig housing, using trays underneath the slats will help drain urine and reduce ammonia build up.
\n\nYou can also use curtains under the slatted floor and scrapers in the channels under the flooring to remove slurry quickly and frequently.
\n\nThere are several publications available to give you advice on reducing ammonia emissions. For example:
\n\nHow cattle house flooring can reduce ammonia emissions on the AHDB website
\n\nCatchment Sensitive Farming case study 170 on the Natural England website
\n\nPig buildings and housing on the AHDB website
\n\nBest Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for the Intensive Rearing of Poultry or Pigs on the European Commission site
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