Request your Mid Tier or Higher Tier application pack
Find out how to request an application pack online to be sent to you by email.
On the Countryside Stewardship Applications screen, you’ll see the blue buttons to ‘Request a Mid Tier application pack’, or to request one of 3 different Higher Tier application packs.
If you cannot see these blue buttons on your screen this means that the option to request a pack is not available to customers at this particular time.
After you’ve requested a pack to be sent to you by email using a blue button, you cannot use the button again in the same scheme year. This means that the application pack can only be emailed to you once. You can only request one type of Higher Tier application pack, if you try to request a different type of pack you’ll see a message onscreen that tells you the request has failed.
To request a pack select the relevant blue option.
- Request a Mid-Tier application pack.
- Request a Higher Tier Agri-Environment application pack.
- Request a Higher Tier Agri –Environment with Woodland Support (mixed) application pack.
- Request a Higher Tier Woodland Support application pack.
You’ll see a message onscreen showing that your request has started, followed by a message confirming that the pack has been created successfully. This may take up to 24 hours when the service is busy. The application pack will be emailed to you automatically as a zipped file. Your SBI appears as the first 9 numbers in the name of the zipped file.
If you have 200 or more land parcels for your SBI the message will tell you that your online request has failed. You need to call us on 03000 200 301 to request the pack. You cannot carry on in the Rural Payments service with your request for a Mid Tier or Higher Tier application pack.
Click ‘Back’ (you may need to scroll down the screen to see it) to take you to the previous screen.
Your Mid Tier pack will contain:
- Application form (pdf) – to complete on screen
- Application Annex (Excel) – (listing the land parcels for your SBI) to complete on screen
- Options/Farm Environment Record (FER) map – to print 2 copies, and mark your options on one and your environment features on the other
- Environmental Information Map (EIM) – for information only.
Your Higher Tier pack will contain:
- Application form (pdf) – to complete on screen
- Application Annex 1 (Excel) – Agri-environment (listing the land parcels for your SBI) to complete on screen
- Application Annex 2 (Excel) – Woodland Support (listing the land parcels for your SBI to complete onscreen
- Options/Farm Environment Record (FER) map – to print 2 copies, and mark your options on one and your environment features on the other
- Environmental Information Map (EIM) – for information only.
All of these show your SBI as the first 9 numbers in the file names, as well as in the documents themselves.
After the pack has been created successfully, you can then also save it to your computer.
Click ‘Open’ alongside the details for your Mid Tier or Higher Tier application pack, on the application screen.
On the next screen click ‘View and print your Application Pack’. Then click the ‘Download’ button after it turns green.
You can choose to ‘Open’ the pack or ‘Save’ it to your computer. But if you don’t want to do either of these click ‘Cancel’.
If there has been a change in the Rural Payments service, for example, land parcel changes, you can update your application pack. To do this, click ‘Generate’ then repeat the ‘Download’ and ‘Save’ process under ‘Save the pack to your computer’ above. The pack will not be emailed to you again, but you can save it to your computer or print it.