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Contact your council to find out if they provide pest control services to remove pests like wasps, rats, mice and bedbugs
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
How we assess issues of potential regulatory concern
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
This guidance describes case definitions to inform testing and reporting of suspected mpox cases.
Information on taking, submitting and processing samples which potentially contain monkeypox virus.
How to prevent the introduction and spread of animal and bird disease by following good hygiene and biosecurity standards.
Information on oak processionary moth for those who own or manage oak trees, including private tree and woodland owners as well as local authorities.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
Signs that may suggest rabies in bats, what to do if you spot them and measures to prevent exposing yourself to the disease.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Diseases and health problems in sheep and goats, including foot and mouth disease (FMD), scrapie and lead poisoning
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
This study uses in situ hyperspectral data and guided regularized random forest algorithm
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
What counts as a statutory nuisance and how councils can deal with complaints by issuing an abatement notice.
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