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Your responsibilities as a public body when carrying out or approving works on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
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.
Find out if you can claim enhanced structures and buildings allowance relief on qualifying expenditure on structures and buildings in a UK Freeport or Investment Zone special tax site.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
Find out if you can claim relief from employer Class 1 National Insurance contributions when you employ someone in a UK Freeport or Investment Zone special tax site.
Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Find out if you can claim the enhanced capital allowance relief on qualifying expenditure for plant and machinery in a UK Freeport or Investment Zone special tax site.
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
This series brings together all documents relating to HMT hospitality received by special advisers.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
This measure allows special tax sites to be designated in Investment Zones.
Find out what you’ll need to do if you’re a business who wants to move goods into or out of a UK Freeport customs site.
See the proposals for new or extended Special Protection Areas to protect internationally and nationally important populations of birds.
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
Public bodies should use this form to pay for advice on carrying out or approving work on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Current rules for exporting horses and other equines (including ponies and donkeys) from the UK.
To help protect Britain's trees and woodland, a felling licence from the Forestry Commission is required to fell most trees.
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