FG15: Water gates
£532.80 per gate.
Preventing livestock from entering watercourse channels and stopping livestock from trampling waterside banks leaves bankside vegetation lush and unbroken by livestock paths.
This item can help you protect, recover and improve biodiversity on your land.
You can use this item either:
You must fit a gate across the river or stream. Make sure the gate:
You must also make sure the gate consists of either a:
The droppers must be:
If the stream gully is more than 1.5 metres (m) deep, you can construct the gate in several sections. The droppers must be:
You must keep and provide with your claim:
You must also keep and provide on request:
- receipted invoices or bank statements where a receipted invoice is unavailable
- photographs of the existing site before work starts
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:
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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.
You may need an environmental permit (formerly flood defence consent) to use this item near a watercourse or within 10m of the top of a riverbank (this varies with some local byelaws).
The Environment Agency issue environmental permits for main rivers. You do not need flood risk permits to work on ‘ordinary watercourses’ – usually small rivers, streams and ditches. Contact your lead local flood authority or internal drainage board to check if you need land drainage consent on all other watercourses.
If you think you need an environmental permit, contact the Environment Agency for advice.
Check to make sure the work meets relevant British Standards.
Published 2 April 2015
Last updated 3 February 2025 + show all updates
