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SAC Helps Local Farmers With Successful SRDP Application

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SAC’s Sandra Stewart was recently part of a successful Scottish Rural Development Programme collaborative application for farmers in the New Cumnock area.

The Stirling-based Conservation Consultant worked alongside SAC's Ayr Farm Business Services office and local farmers. The project was funded by the Coalfield Environment Initiative whose aim is to enhance, conserve and protect the environment in East Ayrshire.

The project aimed to work on a landscape scale to manage habitats and create ecological links between the town, countryside and restored open-cast sites around New Cumnock.

After surveying farms in the area, six of the farmers involved progressed to submit collaborative applications under the Scottish Rural Development Programme.  Sandra helped them complete all of the applications providing specialist management plans and environmental outcome assessments.

The project will deliver a £176,000 investment in local environmental management, which will help create an integrated network of wildlife habitats and benefit species such as lapwing and black grouse on farmland around New Cumnock. The SRDP is designed to develop rural Scotland until 2013 by providing government funding to help farmers whilst meeting government strategic objectives

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