The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Pundyburn Lynn on May 12, 2014, 01:38:00 pm
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Hello folks,
We're about to get a couple of sheep for lawnmowing duties and need to register our garden as a holding. I've printed off the Land and Business Change form as advised and am completely bamboozled by it. Does anyone else have any experience of completing one for a garden??? Do I need to set myself up as a business? How do I find out my land parcel identifier? ???
Lynn
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call defra one phonecall should sort it for you!!!
0845 603 7777 option 5 according to there website (this assumes your in england)
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yeh just do it on the phone, really easy!
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they refer to the business, but that can just be your name its just a way of tracking livestock etc...
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Thanks folks!
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I've just applied for my number and was unable to do it on the phone, I had to fill in the land change form. My land has never been registered before and I was really confused by the form, most of it is irrelevant to me. I spoke to my local rural payments place and they told me which questions to fill in. In the additional information bit I explained my intentions for the land. They issued my number within a week.
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Do I need to set myself up as a business? How do I find out my land parcel identifier? ???
It's been a while since I applied for my primary CPH but I recall something about why I was keeping them (business, breeding etc) so I assume they'd accepts pets or lawnmowers if there was only a handful. Presumably it ties in to some risk banding related to likely number of movements?
For locating your land use the DEFRA Magic Map application. Pick it off a map an it can give you a grid ref and postcode (as well as things like if the land is in schemes etc which a garden obviously won't be) etc
http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?layers=Designations,9,10&box=-288417:46530:777997:746530 (http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?layers=Designations,9,10&box=-288417:46530:777997:746530)