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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.
An explanation of the offshore SEA process, including documentation of the most recent assessment and related consultation.
How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
This guide explains how impacts on local environment should be incorporated into a cost benefit analysis.
How to use an ethnographic study to evaluate your digital health product.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
Organisational definitions of terms concerned with risk and risk-related matters.
Guidance to help local councils in developing policies for renewable and low carbon energy and identifies the planning considerations.
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Guidance on plan-making.
The home page for DSIT’s work supporting the secure and sustainable deployment of connected places technology, also known as smart cities.
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