What is the Rural Land Register?
The Rural Land Register (RLR) is run by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), and is a database of digital maps that show agricultural, woodland and marginal land on which subsidy payments are based. It also records freehold and leasehold properties where the lease has been approved for a term of over seven years. The RLR collects different information about the land from the Land Registry and the method by which the maps are produced is also different from the Land Registry. The RLR also measures land boundaries. The RLR was developed to modernise and simplify land-based schemes. It also meets European Union regulations that require the use of an electronic geographic information system. If your land is already registered with the Land Registry, you or your agent still needs to register it with the RLR. You only need to register the land that you carry out agricultural activities on with the RPA. Therefore, if you want to claim for the Single Payment Scheme, Environmental Stewardship schem
