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Use these forms if you need to apply for a consent decision to increase the productivity of land for agriculture.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
The NCC's advice to government, research and publications on improving the natural environment.
Apply to buy nutrient mitigation credits from Natural England to offset nutrient pollution from housing development.
As a Natural England contractor complete the contractor’s licence form to allow you to download Ordnance Survey mapping data under the PSGA agreement.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
Find nature reserves, national parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and green spaces
Lloyds Banking Group provides £250,000 funding to three nature restoration projects in England through the ‘Projects for Nature online’ platform
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
A practical introduction to making the most of natural services, assets and resources in policy and decision making.
Find out which licence you might need to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat, how to apply and when you might need to pay.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Use these forms to consult on archaeological and heritage, biodiversity, or landscape, common land and access features.
Natural colonisation is the process by which trees colonise new ground from existing local sources. This can happen through seed which has been dispersed by birds, mammals, wind or gravity, or by vegetative colonisation where new growth sprouts from the...
Natural England will support the delivery of measures to accelerate nature recovery, and improve access to the natural world
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