£489.90 per gate.

Wooden gates help stock management or stop livestock from getting into an area where they may cause damage. They help protect environmental and historic or archaeological features.

Wooden wings for gates make ditch crossing points stock proof by linking the gate to the ditch edge.

You can use this item either:

Your Historic Environment Farm Environment Record (HEFER) will identify:

You must not use this item on scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens or registered battlefields without written approval from Historic England.

You must not use this item on SHINE sites without written approval from the relevant local authority historic environment service

You must:

Section	Gates up to 3 metres (m) wide in millimetres (mm)	Gates 3m and over wide in millimetres (mm)
Top rail	100mm by 75mm	125mm by 75mm
Top rail tapered to	75mm by 75mm	75mm by 75mm
Under rails	75mm by 25mm	75mm by 25mm
Braces	75mm by 25mm	75mm by 25mm
Hanging stile	100mm by 75mm	125mm by 75mm
Shutting stile	75mm by 75mm	75mm by 75mm

You must either:

If you use in combination with FG9: Deer fencing the gate must be deer proof.

You must:

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

You must also keep and provide on request:

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.

You can use this item with these items:

FG9: Deer fencing

FG13: Stone gate post 

FY6: Restore coppicing in woodland

Advice to help you use this item

The following advice may help you to use this item, but you do not have to follow it to get paid. It’s not part of this item’s requirements.   

Frame the gates soundly and use wooden materials. All gates should match in height with the adjoining fence and have the appropriate fittings for their operation.

If you need to widen a gateway during wall or bank restoration or create a new opening, you may need planning permission. Check about hedgerow regulations and the permission needed with the local planning authority or the national park authority.

You can use wooden wings to extend the stockproof width of the gate where this is necessary. For example, where a gateway is over a culvert or adjacent to a ditch or dyke.

These are only likely necessary where they’re already a feature of the landscape (such as on grazing marshes).

You can use weather caps to prevent water from penetrating into the post. You should permanently attach them in a way that does not compromise the waterproofing of the post. You can glue or nail through the side of the post but not through the top.

Published 2 April 2015
Last updated 3 February 2025 + show all updates