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Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
Your responsibilities as a public body when carrying out or approving works on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
This page tells you how to identify common constraints and designations within your forestry project’s proposal area and sets out what you must consider or do in relation to individual constraints.
Find out if you can claim enhanced structures and buildings allowance relief on qualifying expenditure on structures and buildings in a UK Freeport or Investment Zone special tax site.
How the Ministry of Defence estate is adapting to climate change, including nature conservation on the estate.
Change your protocol, update your authorisation, report safety issues, submit safety updates and complete your end-of-trial study report.
Information for developers on how to avoid harming protected areas and species during development work.
Information on trade sanctions, arms embargoes and trade restrictions, including trade controls, transit controls and restrictions on terrorist organisations.
Use Natural England's advice to protect European sites and find out if your activity or proposal may potentially impact the species and habitats within them.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
How to move goods, in parcels or large letters, between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Information for manufacturers of medical devices about reporting adverse incidents and field safety corrective actions to the MHRA.
You can use the Right to Contest application to challenge government to sell land or property if you believe it’s not needed and could be put to better economic use.
A copy of the register of European sites in England, which is maintained by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 31 May 2021.
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