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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...
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
This guide examines all the elements of river systems and catchments that need to be considered when designing engineering works to manage flood risk.
This page gives a checklist of actions that applicants must complete before submitting a forestry Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) application.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
How to create a landscape sensitivity assessment to inform decisions on the planning and management of land use change which influence spatial planning.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
We are looking for novel proposals to create at least 100ha of new woodland to be planted by 31 March 2025.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs), National Parks and the Broads.
Guidance on various aspects of the planning system, given in letters to chief planning officers of local planning authorities.
How Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) will produce additional benefits for riverside communities through riverside strategies.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
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