You can apply for this pilot scheme if your building’s in one of these National Parks: Northumberland, Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Peak District, Dartmoor. The park will support you through the application process. Contact details are below.
This grant is a standalone capital grant (option HE2 Historic Building Restoration) available under Countryside Stewardship and pays 80% of eligible costs towards restoration of eligible historic buildings up to a €2 million state aid limit.
In order to apply for this scheme, you must have completed and produced an Implementation Plan, through the Countryside Stewardship capital grant agreement for Implementation Plan (PA1) and a Feasibility Study, using Feasibility Study (PA2). Your Implementation Plan grant application must be received by Natural England by 29 June 2018. These plans must have identified a need to restore historic buildings on your holding. The Management Plan produced from the Feasibility Study will form part of your Agreement. In order to apply for a PA1 or PA2 grant, please see section 2: ‘How it works’ in the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier manual for more information.
To be eligible for this scheme, the footprint of the building to be restored must be within the boundary of one of the participating National Parks and must be evident on an OS map dating on or before 1940 (http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#).
Application packs are available from Natural England and the scheme manual is online:
Countryside Stewardship Delivery Services
Natural England
6th Floor, Northgate House
21-23 Valpy Street
Reading
RG1 1AF
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Telephone 0118 955 7858
National Park contacts
Dartmoor National Park Authority
Nigel Pratt, Historic Buildings Officer
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Tel: 01626 832093
Lake District National Park Authority
Briony Davey, Farm Adviser
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Tel: 01539 792675 or 07766 367529
Northumberland National Park Authority
Chris Jones, Historic Environment Officer
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Tel: 01434 611531 or 07917 284374
Peak District National Park Authority
Suzanne Fowkes, Senior Farm Adviser
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Tel: 01629 816 218
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
Miles Johnson, Historic Environment Officer
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Tel: 0300 456 0030