Amend your county parish holding (CPH) details
Amend the country parish holding details held by the Rural Payments Agency.
Applies to England
You can use this service to:
- add or remove land to or from your CPH number
- update the livestock you keep
- request another CPH number
- request confirmation of your CPH number
- close your CPH number
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will ask you to provide a date for the amendment to take effect from. This must be within 6 weeks of today’s date.
Read more about when livestock keepers must update their details.
Before you start
To amend your CPH details, you’ll need to provide:
- your single business identifier (SBI)
- your customer reference number (CRN)
- your CPH number
- where you’ll keep livestock
Amend online
If you cannot apply online
You can call RPA if you cannot amend your CPH details online:
Rural Payments Agency
Telephone (Defra rural services helpline): 03000 200 301
Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm
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After you’ve applied
You should get confirmation by email within 10 working days. It may take longer during busy periods, or if the information you provided is incorrect.
The email will also include your SBI and CRN to use when contacting RPA in the future.