Yes I went in for that scheme four or five years ago, it's the arable reversion scheme, where we got paid for fencing round all the scheme fields with three rows of barbed wire and new stakes, new wooden gates and posts.
The installation of mains water, pulling a new pipe under ground and fitted new water troughs, and the old hedge rows we gapped up with a mixture of hedging plants predominantly hawthorn, all draw up in a program of work scheduled over a number of years.
It easily covered the cost of the installation, and some of the labour, but I did the work myself with a bit of outside help.
The result is good stock proof fields, and you get paid so much an acre/ hectare to only half stock it.
I am paid £280.00 per Hectare on top of me grazing a few animal to keep it tidy with occasional topping.
£5.00 per metre for hedge row restoration.
£1.20 per metre for post and wire fencing
£2.00 per metre for the water pipe and dragging it under.
£85.00 per water trough.
£2.10 per square metre for pond restoration.
Plus tree surgery , (Major/ and minor)
Apply to Natural England under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) the rates will not be the same but gives you an idea of the advantages of having good fences.
My scheme was applied for with the aid of FWAG, and also got paid £400.00 to cover FWAG costs, all drawn up on a five year schedule of work.
Now its all complete I still get the £280 every year.