Welcome to the HEFER consultation portal 

This website is for:

• Historic England and local authority historic environment advisors to respond to CS HEFER consultations
• Local authority historic environment services to manage SHINE data uploads
• Natural England and Forestry Commision advisors to check for the availability of and dowload CS HEFERs for holdings undertaking CS HT pre-application advice (no account or login required)
• CS HT applicants to download CS HEFERs for their holdings (no account or login required) 

If you need a SFI HEFER please go to https://hefer-data.org.uk/

Please direct any general Countryside Stewardship queries to ruralpayments@defra.gov.uk Telephone 03000 200 301 (Opening times: 8:30am to 5pm Monday to Friday).

If you have a Natural England adviser please contact them for Higher Tier application and agreement queries.

Historic England, Natural England and local authority advisors should direct any queries or issues to the relevant contact.