Get a temporary land association (TLA) or temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number

All livestock holdings (the land and buildings used for keeping livestock) must have a county parish holding (CPH) number.

If you plan to use extra land or buildings temporarily (for less than a year), and they do not have a CPH number, you must get either a:

• temporary land association (TLA) - if they’re within 10 miles of your CPH’s main livestock handling area
• temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number - if they’re more than 10 miles from your main livestock gathering area

You must also do this if you have a 7000 series (landless keeper) CPH number.

You can only get a TLA or tCPH if your livestock will not mix with someone else’s livestock.

If your livestock will mix with someone else’s livestock, you’ll need to record and report the movement onto their CPH.

You can apply for one or more TLA or tCPH and you can renew them.

Getting a TLA: what it means for you

A TLA associates the land or building you’re using temporarily to your existing CPH number.

This means you can treat the land or building as part of the CPH it’s associated with.

You do not need to:

• record or report livestock movements between the TLA land or building and your CPH
• follow the standstill rule if you’re moving livestock between the TLA land or building and your CPH

You must still:

• follow the standstill rule if you’re moving livestock from the TLA land or building to a different CPH
• record and report any livestock movements to the TLA land or building from a different CPH against your CPH

Your TLA land or building will be treated as part of your CPH for disease testing and restrictions.

A TLA will share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:

• do not need separate identification tags for animals kept on a TLA
• must use your CPH number when you order new or replacement tags

The standstill rule

The standstill rule protects the health of the national herd and flock. It reduces the spread of infectious diseases.

If you move cattle, sheep or goats onto your land from a different CPH, you must not move any:

• cattle, sheep or goats off your holding for 6 days
• pigs off your holding for 6 days

If you move pigs onto your land from a different CPH, you must not move any:

• pigs off your holding for 20 days
• cattle, sheep or goats off your holding for 6 days

Day 1 is the day after the arrival of an animal. If an animal arrives on a Monday, day 1 is Tuesday and day 6 is Sunday. You can move your animals after the sixth day, which would be Monday.

When you move deer or poultry, you do not need to follow a standstill rule.

You can move livestock off your land during the standstill period if you move them directly to slaughter. This includes a red (slaughter only) livestock market.

Read all the exemptions to the standstill rule.

Check you can apply for a TLA

You can apply for a TLA if:

• you have a CPH number
• any part of the land or building you want to associate with your CPH is within 10 miles of your main livestock handling area
• your livestock will not mix with livestock kept by someone else on that land or in buildings
• the land or buildings are in England or Wales
• the land you want to associate is in the same bovine TB risk area as your CPH (if you keep bovine animals)

If you have a piece of land that is in both England and Scotland, you cannot get a TLA for any part of the land.

If you have a permanent CPH number

You must also be registered as a livestock keeper with Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) before applying for a TLA. You can either call or email them.

Getting a tCPH number: what it means for you

You must treat your tCPH as a separate CPH to any other CPH you hold. This means that you must:

• keep a separate holding register
• keep livestock reported as being on your tCPH separate from those reported as being on any other CPH
• record and report livestock movements between your tCPH and any other CPH
• follow the standstill rule when you move livestock between your tCPH and any other CPH
• keep identification documents and cattle passports for livestock you move to your tCPH

A tCPH will share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:

• do not need separate identification tags for animals kept on a tCPH
• must use your CPH number when you order new or replacement tags

Bovine TB testing and tCPHs

You must follow the routine bovine TB testing interval for the bovine TB risk area that applies to your tCPH.

The exception is when your tCPH is in the low risk area and your CPH is in the high risk or edge area. Then you must follow the testing interval for your CPH.

When your tCPH is in the high risk area and your CPH is in the low risk area, APHA may ask you to carry out testing on your CPH more often than once every 4 years.

This will depend on the number and frequency of livestock movements between your CPH and your tCPH.

You should test your tCPH at the same time as your CPH wherever possible.

Bovine TB breakdown

If you lose your TB free status (a TB breakdown), APHA will apply movement restrictions. This means you must not move cattle on or off your CPHs and tCPHs unless APHA gives you a licence to do so.

APHA will only remove these restrictions after testing or a veterinary risk assessment.

If you need advice, call APHA.

Check you can apply for a tCPH number

You can apply for a tCPH number if:

• you have a CPH number
• the land and buildings are in England or Wales
• the land and buildings are all rented from the same landholder
• your livestock will not mix with livestock kept by someone else on that land or in buildings
• the land and buildings are not in more than one CPH
• all the land and buildings you want to cover with the tCPH are within 10 miles of the place you’ll gather animals on the temporary holding

If you have a permanent CPH number

You must also be registered as a livestock keeper with APHA before applying for a tCPH. You can call or email them.

Apply for a TLA or tCPH number

Complete the application to register temporary use of land to keep livestock form.

Post or email it to APHA.

When you get your TLA or tCPH

APHA aims to process applications within 10 working days. It may take longer if:

• your application is inaccurate
• the form is incomplete
• they need to carry out a bovine TB veterinary risk assessment

If you have a 7000 series (landless keeper) CPH number

You must register as a livestock keeper with APHA. You can call or email them.

APHA will:

• register you as a livestock keeper
• send you a flock or herd mark

You must use the flock or herd mark to identify animals born on your holding. You can also choose to use it for sheep or goats born elsewhere which have lost their original tags.

Renew your TLA or tCPH number

A TLA and a tCPH last up to one year. If you’re planning to use the land or buildings for longer, you must renew it before it ends. You need to either:

• complete and return the renewal letter form by email or post
• call APHA one month before the expiry date

Update your TLA or tCPH number details

You must tell APHA when:

• there are any changes to the information you gave in your application
• you stop using any of the land or buildings to keep livestock

Call or email APHA. If you email, use ‘TLA update’ or ‘tCPH update’, whichever is applicable, as the subject in your email.