Guidance and regulation

When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 15 April 2024

How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 6 December 2023

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.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 17 May 2023

Your responsibilities as a public body when carrying out or approving works on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 5 August 2022

Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 24 February 2021

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.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 24 February 2021

Find out when and how to appeal if Natural England refuses you consent to carry out an activity on a site of special scientific interest.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 7 June 2022

Find out how to appeal if Natural England serves you with a management notice for works on a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 29 February 2024