Rural and countryside

Services

  1. Make or update a rural payments claim

    Update your details with the Rural Payments Agency to keep claiming payments for your farm land

  2. Owning a boat

    Check what safety requirements and insurance are needed to use a boat on UK rivers, canals, or at sea - boat safety certificates, safety regulations and equipment, disposing of old flares

  3. Register a boat

    Register or license a boat for use on the UK's inland waterways or at sea - which authority to register with, the UK Ship Register and Small Ships Register, penalties and fines

  4. Rights of way and accessing land

    Rights of way and right to roam - access rights of way, open access and permissive access land, use common lands, the Countryside Code, report problems

  5. Rural Development Programme for England

    Rural Development Programme for England - funding and current schemes

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Countryside Productivity Scheme
  2. Prevent Japanese knotweed from spreading
  3. BPS 2019
  4. Balai Directive: moving live animals, semen and embryos
  5. Public rights of way: landowner responsibilities
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News and communications

  1. Secretary of State Appoints NPAs and AONB Conservation Boards
  2. eAlert: 22 August 2019 - Managing ash trees affected by ash dieback
  3. Chesterfield man nets £431 penalty for fishing without a licence
  4. Movement authorisation and timber plant passporting in Kent
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Research and statistics

  1. Nursery Survey: 2019 Edition
  2. Rural expenditure statistics
  3. Rural poverty statistics
  4. Rural business statistics
  5. Rural economic activity statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. National FCERM strategy: Strategic Environmental Assessment scoping report
  2. Conservation covenants
  3. Use of general licences for the management of certain wild birds: a call for evidence
  4. RDPE programme document 2014 to 2020
  5. Provenance choice of native trees under climate change in England - Policy Advice Note
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Forestry Commission spend over £25,000 (2019)
  2. River Thames: annual report
  3. Register of Interests - Forestry Commissioners
  4. 2019 Government Procurement Card (GPC) spend for transactions over £500
  5. Executive Board meeting, 4 February 2019, Bristol
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