FG13: Stone gate post

This item is part of Capital Grants 2025. You must read the Capital Grants 2025 guidance to understand the rules and how to apply.

If 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.

How much you’ll be paid

£651.42 per post.

How this item benefits the environment

It helps conserve local landscape character and sites of historic interest by establishing stone gate posts made from local materials in local styles.

Where you can use this item

You can use this item either:

• with capital item FG12: Wooden field gate

• if stone gate posts are traditional in the area

• with a boundary restoration capital item

You cannot use this item:

• on historic or archaeological sites identified in your Historic Environment Farm Environment Record (HEFER)

• with Sustainable Farming Incentive management action BND1 Maintain dry stone walls

What you must do to use this item

You must set up a stone or slate gate post in the local material, cut or tooled to the size and shape typical of the local area.

Evidence you must keep

You must keep photographs of the completed work and provide with your claim.

You must also keep and provide on request:

• any consents or permissions connected with the work

• receipted invoices or bank statements where a receipted invoice is unavailable

• photographs of the proposed location of the new gate posts

Read 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.

If you’re applying for this item as part of a CSHT application, you must read the record keeping and site visit requirements in the CSHT applicant’s guide. *[CSHT]: Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier