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Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Find how to make sure you pay the right tax on purchases of land and property that fall in more than one tax jurisdiction.
How to carry out and use landscape and seascape character assessments.
Guidance for those affected by changes to UK immigration and borders due to coronavirus.
Rules on buffer strips that you must follow if you have hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
Understand the role of Natural England, local authorities and partnerships when designating or managing AONBs in England.
Guidance to help local councils adapt to new rules now that the UK has left the EU and the transition period has ended.
Find out about the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions for buffer strips, what land is eligible and what you need to do to get paid.
Find out when you are permitted to cut and trim hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
This page tells you how to identify common constraints and designations within your forestry project’s proposal area and sets out what you must consider or do in relation to individual constraints.
As an owner or manager of land in the coastal margin, find out about your responsibilities and how to manage public access.
This environmental resource guide seeks to support the rollout of digital infrastructure in England, by providing greater awareness of climate adaptation, environmental improvements (biodiversity gains), and low carbon considerations. The guide is based on England jurisdiction, but has direct relevance...
About your property boundaries, working out your boundary lines, boundaries and neighbour disputes, agreeing who's responsible for walls and fences
Guidance for businesses on OPSS border controls.
As a land owner or manager, find out about your responsibilities and how to manage public access.
Use National Character Area profiles to find descriptions, facts and data about the different landscapes of England.
Find out the different ways that customs approved border locations can be operated in the UK. A border location can be either a wharf, airport or rail terminal.
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