More information and contacts
This section provides the contact details for the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier
Rural Payments Agency (Countryside Stewardship)
PO Box 324
WORKSOP
S95 1DF
Email: ruralpayments@defra.gov.uk
Rural Payments helpline: 03000 200 301
Website: www.rpa.gov.uk
Open – Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm, (closed at weekends and on public holidays)
Give your Single Business Identifier (SBI) for all enquiries.
If you do not have access to the internet, you can call us on 03000 200 301 until 31 March, to request an application pack.
Technical advice on higher tier applications is available from Natural England by:
email: enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk or; telephone: 0300 060 3900
Technical advice on the woodland sections of Higher Tier applications is available from the Forestry Commission. You can find contact details for the Forestry Commission on GOV.UK
If you are an applicant for Countryside Stewardship, or an Agreement Holder, and you want to complain about the level of service you have received or the way that you have been treated, you should use the appropriate organisation’s complaints procedure.
For more information search for the Rural Payments Agency on GOV.UK, then scroll down the page to ‘Complaints procedure’ under ‘Corporate information’.