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Their purpose is to support candidates for the national exams in their revision of taxation
Responding to the public’s demand for more sustainable operations, many agencies are permitting ahigher percentage of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) in pavement mixes and are considering the use of Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS). Hear from a renowned national expert on the very latest in RAP and RAS trends, research and practical applications.
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Slides for a seminar held by the West Midlands Agricultural Valuers Association at Rodbaston College, Staffordshire on 29 July 2015.
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RICS Wales Rural Conference 2014
Llandrindod Wells
Valuation: Cross-roads or Cul de Sac?
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Agricultural Property Relief in perspective: a comparison of asset classesCharles Cowap
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Link to Conference Press Release:
http://www.nfuonline.com/about-us/our-offices/west-midlands/worcestershire/farmers-discuss-the-future-of-farming-post-brexit/
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http://www.rics.org/uk/knowledge/news-insight/news/woodland-taxation-and-valuation--a-professional-briefing-paper-for-surveyors-1st-edition-february-2014-/
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Presentation at the RICS Scotland Rural Mid Session Conference, Perth, 22 November 2012. New markets, opportunities and challenges for the work of rural chartered surveyors.
Valuation of renewable energy installations: a presentation at the RICS West Rural Seminar, Shepton Mallet 12 October 2011. This is a preview of the RICS Guidance Note due to be published in March 2012 and available for public consultation in November 2011.
CAAV tax update for examination candidates, 27 July 2011, Rodbaston College, Staffs, covering Budget 2011, Capital Allowances, Furnished Holiday Lets, Farmhouses and Inheritance Tax, and Stamp Duty Land Tax
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Stimulating investment in Carbon, Water and Biodiversity from peatland restoration
1. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Applying PES in practice
Stimulating investment in C, H2O and
Biodiversity benefits from peatland
restoration
Ecosystems Knowledge Network
Bristol
22 May 2013
Charles Cowap, Chartered Surveyor Knowledge for Rural
Professional Practice, and Harper Adams University
Dr David Smith, Mires in the Moors and Upstream
Thinking, South West Water
2. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Learning points from this seminar
1. Legal and practical issues with land ownership and management
for the implementation of PES
2. Building the business case for land managers
3. Key considerations and concerns for landowners, farmers and
their professional advisers
4. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Distribution of upland peatlands in the South
West of England
5. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
The mires on Exmoor
Drainage for agricultural
improvement
6. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Domestic and commercial peat cutting for
fuel
Cutting carried on until the end of the c20th
7. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Exmoor peatlands have become largely
dry and dominated by Molinia (sedge
grass) as a result
8. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Exmoor Mires Project
• Initiated in 1998 by ENPA, EA and NE. First restoration work at
Exe-head in 2001-4 aimed to benefit the River Exe.
• New Partnership for 2006-9 project with SWW - Wildlife
restoration was the main funding aim of the partners.
• 2010-15 SWW customers funded project for water supply, quality
and wildlife.
9. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
What has the project achieved?
• The blocking of 85km of ditches and the re-wetting of 735ha of
mire at 22 sites
10. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Where?- the pink bits, the brown bits are
possible future sites
11. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
How is restoration done?
• Peat blocks, sometimes with wood and bales
12. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Peat and wooden blocks
6 weeks after restoration
13. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
What other equipment is used?
• Tracked dumper for logistics
• Tractor with big tyres for cutting and bales
14. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
What is the end result
• Most sites get a bit wetter and a some have got a lot wetter in
places
15. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Ditch blocks on a typical site with lots of
small ditches
16. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Ditch blocks on big ditches = Pools
17. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Current Exmoor Project 2010- 15
• £2m budget for Exmoor
• 2,000ha target restoration area
• 3,400ha of peatland has now been surveyed, the ditches/peat-
cuttings measured and GPS mapped and the restoration potential
assessed.
• 340 ha has been restored so far.
• Another 300ha planned for this August
18. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Proof of Concept monitoring
Plant monitoring has found an
increase in Sphagnum species and
less Molinia
19. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Other Wildlife monitoring (Birds,
dragonflies, amphibians, reptiles,
etc)
Dragonflies example is typical of increases;
Black Darter- (rare on Exmoor as it
needs bog pools) Blackpitts now has
possibly the largest population in
Somerset (100’s seen in 2011)
Common Hawker-(rare in southern
England) x10 seen at Blackpitts and
x2 at Squallacombe in 2012
20. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Agricultural Impact of Mire restoration
monitoring
• base line survey started in 2012 by WRT,
• post-restoration surveys in subsequent years.
21. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
•Monitoring Equipment per site:
54 dipwells, 18 temperature loggers, 60
capacitance probes, 30 mini conductivity
loggers, 3 seepage meters.
Hydrological
Monitoring:
Water storage
and quality
changes
22. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Monitoring GHG flux and storage
Ground Collars
Fan to mix
chamber air
Temperature and
relative humidity
logger
Internal balloon (to dampen
pressure changes)
Sample Outlet
Vent Tube
Lid & chamber
Chamber, lid
and collar
are sealed
using a
water-filled
groove
23. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Why Monitor?
• Need to prove to the Water Regulator
that peatland restoration achieves its
aims of improving water supply and
quality.
• The outcome information is also
needed for the set-up of a revenue
payment for Mire restoration.
25. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Context: Exmoor example
Exmoor
R Barle
R Exe
Wimbleball Resr &
R Haddeo
Exebridge
Pumping
Station
Replenishment
Pumping
Approx 5
miles, lifting water
from 120 to 240 m
AOD
CO 2
26. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Pumping Costs
Treatment Costs
Future
Storage/Abstraction
Costs
Incentive payments to
landowners –
managers - occupiers
Savings for water
buyers
Profit for reinvestment
or distribution
CARBON
Economics
+ OTHER ESS
PAYMENTS???
27. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Top Three Concerns
• Confidence
• Revenue/Cost
• Scheme Relationships
28. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Top Three Positives
• Environmental
• Revenue
• Asset Value and wider economic aspects
29. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Top Three Questions
• Legal/ownership concerns
• Revenue and cost
• Confidence
30. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Questions for consideration
• Contractual aspects
• Land tenure
• Effects on other
interested parties
• Practical farming
considerations
• Animal welfare and
health
• Public liability
• Relationship other
schemes
• Other business
considerations
• Maintenance
obligations
• Tax
• Impact on value
• Security/risk
31. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Decision Criteria and guidance
Site suitability
• Peatland known
mapped damage
• Detailed survey & mapping
• Damage restorable?
• Farming impact?
• Drainage/wetness
implications for
surrounding land
Land manager
• All interests
• New management
requirement?
• Impact on other
opportunities (+/-)
• Financial
32. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Financial evaluation
Extra costs, eg
• Access time to more difficult
ground
• Vet and med bills
• Insurance
• Feed
• Machinery costs (if
contracting to be offered)
Costs saved
• Eg some livestock purchases
Lost Revenue
• Eg some livestock LWG or
sales
Extra Revenue eg
• PES income
• Contracting opportunities for
SWW
+ Balance: financially
worthwhile
• Consider capital and tax
implications
Balance positive: not financially
worthwhile
33. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Key Questions for PES developers
• Working with the positives
• Addressing the negatives
• Market infrastructure
– Eg willing buyer
– Trading terms
• Eg Peatland Carbon Code
• Contractual infrastructure
– Eg Law Commission
Conservation Covenant
Review
34. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
So to conclude:
• Legal and practical issues
• Building the business case
• Key considerations and concerns for
landowners, farmers and their
professional advisers
35. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Discussion and
introduction of case
study
36. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Red Earth Farm is a mixed tenure farm of total 500
hectares. Of this 400 ha is rented under the
Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, and the remainder is
owned (but subject to a mortgage with the
Agricultural Mortgage Corporation). The main
farmhouse and two workers’ cottages are located on
the rented land along with the farm buildings. The
owned land consists exclusively of bare land with no
dwellings or buildings. The land abuts the west bank
of the River Severn to the north of Tewkesbury (both
the tenanted and owned land).
Food
Pollination Raw materials
Medicine
Biodiversity Local climate and air quality
Carbon
Mitigate extreme events
Water
Soil quality and stability
Disease Health
Waste treatment
37. Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Charles Cowap
MBA MRICS FAAV
Contact Details
Charles Cowap
Translating new knowledge for
rural professional practice
cdcowap@gmail.com
07947 706505
Twitter: @charlescowap
Blog:
http://charlescowap.wordpress.
com/
Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/cdco
wap
Dr David Smith
South West Water
Mires Project Manager
dmsmith@southwestwater.co.uk
056 0118 1600
http://www.exmoormires.org.uk/
http://www.southwestwater.co.uk
Editor's Notes
1. Gas fluxes are measured from the surface of the peatlands using closed chambers.2. Each site is fitted with permanent ground collars onto which the chamber is placed during gas collection.3. The chamber is sealed with a gas-tight lid.4. Gas samples are collected over a 15-min period every 5 minutes and the change of concentration with time of the gas species is used to determine their flux rate (taking into account chamber volume, internal temperature and the foot print of the chamber).5. A balloon on the inside on the chamber is connected to the external air. It helps dampen any sudden pressure changes that might trigger ebullition events (i.e., sporadic bubble release from the soil).6. The vent tube allows outside air to enter the chamber at the same rate that it is being withdrawn during sample collection. The total volume of each sample is ~60 ml (1 x 20 ml sample + duplicate flushing). The amount of ‘fresh’ air entering the chamber is taking into account in the flux data processing (i.e., as a dilution). The vent tube prevent negative pressure from forming in the chamber which could trigger or enhance the rate of gas release from soil.