#PARCEL MAP UPDATE#

We use digital maps to record physical land parcel boundaries and features for land parcels which will be included in applications and/or claims for some rural payments schemes. It’s your responsibility to check your digital maps throughout the year and tell us if you do not agree with a change that we’ve made. It’s important that if you receive a notification through the Rural Payments service, you check your digital land maps and land parcel details. We do this to make sure your digital maps are as up-to-date and accurate as possible. We will also check the latest information we hold to decide if your digital map needs to be updated further. If you request a change to your digital maps after the annual map updates have been completed, we need to check the information you give us. These updates are usually made between December and February so that they are published before most customers start to apply for agri-environment schemes and/or the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).

#PARCEL MAP UPDATE#

We carry out an annual review where we check, update and publish changes to digital land maps. When were digital land maps checked and updated? We will either confirm that we’ve made the changes you requested or we will explain why they cannot be made. If you request a change to your digital maps, either by calling us or by sending an RLE1 form and sketch map to us, we will write to you. If we update your land parcels, you will receive notifications in the ‘Messages’ tab in the Rural Payments service identifying which land parcels have been updated. It’s important that you check your digital maps online because we regularly review and update our mapping information. How we notify you that we’ve updated a land parcel These include site visits (inspections) and land imagery such as aerial photography and Ordnance Survey map updates as well as information received from customers. We check and update digital land maps using information from the latest available data sources. Information we use to check if an update is needed We do this by checking the digital maps and updating them if necessary. The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) needs to make sure that all land data on its systems is up to date.

Parcel map