Year 2: Approved Projects
The following projects were approved in year 2 of the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme (March 2022 - 2023).
| Project reference | Project name | Project description | FiPL grant awarded | Date awarded | Project end date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNP-FPL-102 | Blackaton Orchard | This project includes installing fencing to create a secure grazing area for livestock away from nearby water courses and the addition of water troughs to provide an alternative water source for livestock. Fruit and nut trees have also been planted to diversify the existing habitat and increase biodiversity. | £4,907.38 | 14/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-103 | Blackhall Farm | A project aiming to restore 305 metres of historic farm boundaries through a combination of earth bank restoration, hedge laying and fencing. This will ensure greater connectivity by linking up with existing hedgerows to the South and East and to the adjoining Northern woodland. | £3,782.00 | 26/01/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-122 | Beetor Farm | To develop a farm diversification business by supporting the purchase of a seed harvester to harvest and sell wildflower seeds locally, which will have a positive impact for wildlife across Dartmoor. This will provide an additional income for a family-run farm business. | £2,273.00 | 03/07/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-124 | Pudsham Meadows | Pudsham hay meadows have been independently described as some of the best meadows in SW England. The Dartmoor Preservation Association aim to improve the management of these historic species rich hay meadows using a power scythe, alongside native tree planting, all of which will be completed by volunteers through a series of public educational visits. | £2,777,20 | 03/10/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-129 | Bala Brook Retreat Centre | This project aims to preserve a number of Bronze Age hut circles at Bala Brook by removing dense bracken and brambles as part of a series of volunteer days. In addition to this, improvements will be made to public access which will allow more visitors to take part in regular year-round educational and volunteering events. | £10,459.05 | 27/04/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-131 | Narracombe Farm I | Biochar is a fine grade charcoal that can be used to lock up carbon, reduce the acidity of soil, can be used as a supplement to animal feed and also has a wide variety of horticultural uses. This project aims to create a structurally diverse woodland that will enhance habitat, and will be used to support a sustainable local charcoal and biochar production business - 'Narracombe Charcoal'. | £22,805.80 | 07/06/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-132 | Sanduck Cross Farm | To create a wildlife corridor which will join up and improve connectivity to existing boundary hedgerows. This will provide new habitat, food and shelter for wildlife and livestock, and will add to the natural beauty of the Dartmoor landscape | £6,270.00 | 25/05/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-134 | Greyhound Farm | To carry out 20 public sheep dog demonstrations - 'Two Men and Their Dog' - so that the public can learn about Dartmoor as a living and working landscape. this includes installing new sheep signs on a popular walking route to improve dog control on Dartmoor. | £10,635.00 | 27/04/2022 | 31/03/2025 |
| DNP-FPL-135 | Soussons Farm Access | To improve the well-used public bridleway that runs from Soussons Farm to Challacombe Farm, by creating a raised causeway using growan excavated from beside the track, and to surface the ford with pitched large granite slabs, sourced from a nearby farm, some of which will be left proud to act as stepping stones in all but the highest flows. | £2,115.00 | 25/05/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-137 | Bowden Farm II | To provide basic toilet facilities and handwashing area within the curtilage of the farm yard, to provide suitable facilities for visitors to the farm. This improved infrastructure will support and encourage organised public access to the farm for events such as Open Farm Sunday and school visits, as well as provide basic facilities for temporary summer camping, for example Duke of Edinburgh camping. | £11,352.00 | 28/04/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-139a | Blackslade Manor | To plant 220 trees, including an orchard and 192 metres of new hedgerow, including stone wall restorations and fencing. | £24,964.28 | 25/05/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-140 | Great Houndtor Farm | To support the purchase of a mobile water trough and electric fencing equipment to aid the applicant's regenerative grazing regime, as well as a sheep handling facility to help reduce the use of farm medicines used. This will boost both soil carbon and biodiversity on the farm. | £3,336.00 | 25/05/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-141b | Teign Marsh | A project aiming to make enhancements for nature across a variety of habitats, including meadow and wetland restoration, orchard creation, creating a series of copses through tree planting, Devon stone-faced bank re-instatement and hedgerow boundary improvements. | £11,650.35 | 25/05/2022 | 31/03/2025 |
| DNP-FPL-142 | Drywell Farm | To repair a historic drain and create a new drainage gutter along Two Moors Way. Also, to repair gaps in a drystone wall adjecent to a bridleway. | £5,625.00 | 01/07/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-145 | Lizwell Farm | A project aiming to reduce tillage and improve soil health by overseeding to improve the existing worn and damaged pasture. New herbal leys will be reseeded without ploughing up the ground, using a grassland overseeder, which will allow the farm to improve soil structure, health and diversity. | £6,075 | 06/07/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-148 | Inglenook | To create an appropriate dog walking field in South Brent, providing a secure dog walking site for hire whereby the public can safely exercise and train dogs off the lead. | £6,200 | 05/07/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-201a | Butterbrook House | Conserving species rich grassland and restoring wood pasture; plus restoring a historic and functional leat; and installing a gravity-driven water pump system to supply drinking troughs which will improve conservation grazing. | £36,290.97 | 22/09/2022 | 31/03/2025 |
| DNP-FPL-202 | Blachford Farm | To stabilise and enhance the former heritage watermill building. Reduce run-off from nearby water courses, reduce soil erosion by reinstating the mill pond attenuation area thus better managing water flow. Improve nature habitat opportunities at the barn for protected species and provide a landscape focal point immediately next to an established public right of way. | £20,600.00 | 19/10/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-203 | Eggworthy Farm | To repair the stone wall between Routrundle and Walkhampton Common. This wall has been identified as being amongst the oldest in the area, as it has an unusual overlapping top row of stones that prevent animals climbing it. | £15,349.00 | 20/09/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-205a | Delamore Home Farm | Protecting the ancient woods and streams around the lower edges of the farm with additional fencing. Restoring the area of wet grassland and rush pasture, and establishing two fields as herbal leys. Managing five other fields as low input grassland, and adopting a conservation management cycle across the farm. | £67,726.80 | 30/09/2022 | 31/03/2025 |
| DNP-FPL-207a | Dartmoor Commoners Council Fire Plan - Phase 1 | The scoping phase of a Dartmoor-wide project, which aims to create a strategic plan for combatting wildfires over the whole of Dartmoor. In order to do this, all existing common fire plans need to be collated, digitised and mapped. Followed by establishing gaps in information and identifying appropriate practical works and costings. | £5.608.42 | 13/10/2022 | 31/03/2025 |
| DNP-FPL-208 | Quarry Farm | Preparing ground and planting fruit trees, labour and materials, and cutting back willow. | £4,933.22 | 21/09/2022 | 31/03/2022 |
| DNP-FPL-210a | Forest of Dartmoor | Purchase of specialist vegetation management and fire fighting equipment. | £122,207.83 | 12/12/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-221 | West Blackdown | An anti flooding project that aims to clear out the historic drainage ditches that have become neglected - reinstating them to channel water off and prevent flooding downstream. | £4,966.10 | 20/12/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-214a | Trenchford Valley | A collaboration between three adjoining land managers running five projects consisting of combining traditional conservation grazing with Dartmoor ponies, and mob grazing with local cattle. Restoring a historic stone wall, and strategic land management using local contractors to improve biodiversity. Provide educational visits, to engage with the public about forestry, conservation, mob grazing, and traditional skills such as coppicing, ecology, sustainable land use, and climate change. | £23,421.98 | 01/01/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-218 | Blackhall Farm II | Field boundary restoration and priority woodland habitat restoration. Restore 140m of historic field boundaries. Provide 150m of protective fencing for 0.55ha of priority woodland habitat. | £2,237.00 | 01/01/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-211 | Shallowford Farm - Farm2City | This project will deliver a programme of activities to connect and engage communities living in Wandsworth (London) with farming and conservation communities on Dartmoor. The project will take the Dartmoor Farm to central London and connect city children to Dartmoor. | £37,387.67 | 12/01/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-226 | Teign Valley Venison | To support the purchase of two items of equipment to help deer management. The applicant will then sell the venison through their business 'Teign Valley Venison'. The items include a thermal imager and a capstan winch. | £2,906.00 | 19/01/2023 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-220a | Lowertown Farm | Restoring hedgerows and banks by a combination of earthing up, tree shearing and hedge laying and re-fencing, approximately 680m in total. | £9,429.07 | 02/02/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-216 | Forder Farm | Grassland restoration, woodland planting, meadow creation, orchard planting, fencing - all to encourage wildlife biodiversity in the valley. | £7,695.22 | 07/02/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-212b | A project to improve biodiversity and soil health across 10 farms in the Postbridge area, giving farmers a better understanding of their existing and potential Natural Capital, and undertake improvements. | £15,266.57 | 08/02/2023 | 31/03/2024 | |
| DNP-FPL-213b | Great Sloncombe Farm | Reinstate a historic orchard by planting cider apple trees with guards. Reinstatement of historic field access and drovers tracks. Restore traditional farm buildings, stone walls and gateways. Install cattle drinking troughs and systems to stop cattle drinking from water courses. Woodland improvements and the planting of parkland trees. Installation of owl boxes. | £77,729.70 | 09/02/2023 | 31/03/2025 |
| DNP-FPL-209b | Dunstone Farm | Planting 2 ha of native woodland to extend neighbouring SSSI site. Maintenance and improvement of meadow, and the creation of wood pasture. Establishing a traditional orchard and a coppice woodland. Creating 400m of native hedgerow, and protecting the site with deer proof fencing. | £37,833.11 | 10/02/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-215 | Sky Yonder | Planting a new hedgerow, and the creation of two traditional orchards - planting 155 fruit trees, primarily local heritage varieties suited to the location. | £6,710.96 | 10/02/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-219 | Holne Moor - Tree Planting | Planting 100 trees on Holne moor at very low densities over 30+ha. All trees protected with Cactus tree guards and supported with metal rebar. | £4,855.20 | 16/02/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-227 | Smith Hill Newtake | Scrapes for water habitat to support curlew re-introduction within the Newtake. | £2,316.00 | 16/02/2023 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-228 | Roborough Common | Scrub control and bracken management on Roborough Common to improve the quality and increase the extent of High Brown Fritillary breeding habitat. Read more... | £4,428.00 | 27/02/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-101 | Great Moor | Great Moor 1: 1. Maintain and enhance the NVC M25/M23 - through grazing, scrub control and water level management 2. Manage the H4 by rotational cutting 3. Keep the mature woodland to its existing footprint 4. Increase and manage the amount of open scrub on site 5. Create more open standing water Great Moor 2: 1.Securing of external boundary to allow summer grazing. 2. Addition of 300m of fencing and 2 new field gates. | £14,940.05 | 09/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| DNP-FPL-232 | Greyhound and Merripit Paths | To improve the quality of the paths leading north out of Postbridge. These are the ‘gateway’ paths onto the north moor from the large car parks at Postbridge and Bellever Forest, and are used by Ten Tors participants and people doing the ‘waterfall walk’. | £13,870 | 03/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 |
| DNP-FPL-127 | Kirkside Farm | 1. Regenerate old / ancient orchard which dates back to the 1800’s and is shown as a working orchard on the Ordinance Survey of 1904. 2. Plant trees throughout on a scattered basis to increase the wooded areas and improve connectivity 3. Fence the farm boundary on a steep valley slope in oak woodland to enable animals to be allowed in the woodland as conservation grazers. 4. Provide water supply and troughs to enable the keeping of cattle and Dartmoor ponies for conservation grazing to improve botanical diversity. 5. Grassland survey to monitor grassland diversity as a baseline. | £27,735.17 | 20/04/2023 | 31/03/2024 |