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

Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.

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.

• Overview

  You have the right to access some land for walking or certain other…

• Use public rights of way

  You can walk on all public rights of way. Some public rights of way are…

• Use your right to roam

  You can access some land across England without having to use paths - this…

• Access private land

  You may be able to access private land if the landowner has agreed to let…

Appeal a decision by your local council to reject your application for a right of way - how to appeal, what documents to submit, who can comment on your appeal and how long it takes.

Rural Development Programme for England - funding and current schemes.

Single application form which allows for both highways statements and declarations, and landowner statements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Application form for consent to construct works on common land: Commons Act 2006, Section 38 and the National Trust Act.

• From: Planning Inspectorate

Find nature reserves, national parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and green spaces

Application form to purchase a River Thames lock and weir fishing permit.

• From: Environment Agency

Application form to deregister, or to deregister and exchange, common land or town or village greens.

• From: Planning Inspectorate

Use this form and guidance to apply for a capital grant for an implementation plan (PA1) or feasibility study (PA2).

• From: Natural England and 1 others

Appeal a hedgerow notice - deadlines, how to appeal and how long it takes to get a decision

Application form to apply to register land as a town or village green.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Schedule 14 appeal form and guidance: Anyone who has made an unsuccessful application to a local highway authority for an order to modify the area's definitive map and statement can appeal the decision.

• From: Planning Inspectorate

Form to surrender or extinguish a right of common from the register of common land or of town or village greens.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

When an order making authority submits an order for determination, they also need to provide a number of supporting documents.

• From: Planning Inspectorate

Use this form to tell us about a change you would like to make to your Grant Funding Agreement.

• From: Rural Payments Agency

Record the transfer of ownership of a right of common in gross in the register of common land or of town or village greens.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Expressions of interest for a project which aims to improve people’s mental health through green social prescribing.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 6 others

Use this form to tell us about an activity you have taken part in on behalf of your CSFF group.

• From: Rural Payments Agency