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

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.

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

How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 17 February 2023

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

Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 21 March 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for nutrient management.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 16 August 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on improved grassland.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 12 October 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 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

Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).

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

What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 April 2018

How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 24 November 2022

Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 17 September 2021

How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 2 February 2022

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (Agriculture) Regulations protect uncultivated, semi-natural and rural land. Find out when and how to get permission to make changes to land.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 31 January 2024

How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 12 April 2024

How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 12 October 2023