SimonE Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 we have been asked the question below by Severn Trent Water. We would welcome your input on what a farmer should expect to pay for the types of fencing detailed Thanks Paul I am a catchment adviser with Severn Trent Water and my role involves working with farmers to reduce point source pollution. We are going to be launching a grant scheme which objectives are to assist farm businesses to tackle diffuse pollution with capital item investments. We will be offering 50% funding on fixed cost capital items and the scheme is voluntary. One particular grant offered will be the exclusion of livestock from watercourses, i.e. Fencing. In order to offer a reasonable and fair grant we would appreciate it if it were possible for you to offer a general estimated prices per meter (incl Labour) for the following types of fencing Post and wire fencing Sheep Netting Permanent Electric Fencing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliehub Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Well the price with materials will vary but one thing is for sure whenever we have fenced water courses there always seems to be loads of strainers as they generally meander along and no farmer is going to want to loose even 1 ft of ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevew Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 That's very hard on the poor farmers Charlie ! But unbelievably correct. You must deal with the same farmers as me, You will have me feeling sorry for them !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premnayloon Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 I'm interested in this as I have heard that sepa want to do the same in Scotland, i believe that eventually all water courses will need to be fenced off in time, Can only be good news for us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbell Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 there has been a lot of water course fencing around here under a scheme called source to sea, the Grant was for £5.00 per m and there were contractors around here doing it for 4.50/m crazy. the spec was for a stock fence, pw, ht8/80/15 then 2x pw or barb on top another scheme was specked as 8 x 3.25 ht plain wire with 2x barb on top, a termination strainer every 50 with a 1m railed section that wasnt to be nailed to one of the strainers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tepapa Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Come on guys this is your chance to influence a spec and price for that matter! Think it would be wise to have a price that allows for more turning posts than standard spec and as soon as you start to cross streams the material price and hassle factor increases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonE Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 As Tepapa says you have an opportunity to put forward the real cost of this type of fencing. Charlie makes a good point that there are aspects of this type of fencing that make it very different from a standard stock fence and I will certainly put that argument forward to them. It may be an idea to look at a range of per metre prices - bottom price for standard straight line good ground and top price for meandering/ turns every 5 metres. Any help would be welcomed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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