Statutory guidance

RLE1 form and guidance

Use the RLE1 form to make changes to your digital maps, register new land and transfer entitlements by sub-lease or inheritance.

Published 23 March 2015
Last updated 9 April 2020 — see all updates
From:
Rural Payments Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and Forestry Commission
Applies to:
England

Documents

RLE1 form

PDF, 208KB, 8 pages

Rural Land and Entitlements (RLE1) guidance

PDF, 2.41MB, 68 pages

How to check and change your hedge information

PDF, 909KB, 14 pages

Change land tenure form

PDF, 197KB, 2 pages

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Details

How to check and change your hedge information

This guidance explains how to check the information RPA holds about hedges on your land and what to do if you need to make changes.

Notifications in the Rural Payments service

RPA will send you a notification in the Rural Payments service when:

  • a land transfer request is completed
  • an entitlement transfer request is completed
  • RPA has made updates to digital maps that you didn’t tell them about

Land and entitlement transfer notifications will be visible to anyone with the correct permission level for the business making the transfer and the business receiving the transfer.

RPA will not send notifications to confirm mapping changes that you have told them about or that have been made following an inspection.

Change land tenure form

Use the change land tenure form to change your holding type or land share so you can transfer land online or make a BPS claim.

Published 23 March 2015
Last updated 9 April 2020 + show all updates

  1. Change land tenure form added.

  2. Publication of RLE1 guidance for 2020.

  3. RPA email address updated on RLE1 form.

  4. Replaced 'How to check and change your hedge information' 2018 guidance with 2019 version. Replaced RLE1 2018 guidance with 2019 version.

  5. How to check and change your hedge information v3.0 added

  6. RLE Guidance Version 2.0 - Updates to ‘How to print your maps’, ‘When to use an RLE1 form to update your maps’, ‘Sending sketch maps to us’, ‘Transferring or removing land’, ‘Land cover changes’, ‘How to check your maps/land parcels’, ‘Part D: Add hedges and trees in a line’ and ‘Part E: Supporting documents’.

  7. New guidance published: 'How to check and change your hedge information'.

  8. Hedges Guidance removed

  9. New guidance published about how to check and change hedge information.

  10. Page and guidance updated

  11. New text added about mapping updates to digital land maps.

  12. Updates to Digital mapping information and new section published called Mapping updates published from July 2017.

  13. RLE1 guidance updated for the BPS 2017 scheme year.

  14. Updated to explain that transfers will now be confirmed online.

  15. Version 2.0 Updated 31 March 2016

  16. Updated to add the 2016 versions of the RLE1 form and guidance

  17. New information about how to transfer land and entitlements online.

  18. Updated to include details about RLE1s for Countryside Stewardship

  19. Updated with deadline extension for telling RPA about features or areas which are permanently ineligible for the Basic Payment Scheme.

  20. Published new versions of the RLE1 form and guidance for the 2015 year.

  21. First published.

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