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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.
When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
This notice provides a glossary of Scottish land law terms.
As an owner or manager of land, understand how to restrict public access for land management, public safety or fire prevention reasons.
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of business premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
How to manage Eurasian beavers on your land without a licence and when you need a licence in England.
What happens when Rural Payments Agency field officers visit your holding, including checks on tagging, holding registers and movement records.
How local planning authorities can ensure that developers and land managers meet the requirements for biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Find out when transactions involving land and buildings are exempt from VAT.
About your property boundaries, working out your boundary lines, boundaries and neighbour disputes, agreeing who's responsible for walls and fences
We handle cases relating to intellectual property disputes about: patents registered designs plant varieties If the amount sought (damages) is under £500,000 then the case can also be heard by the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court . If the amount sought...
Common land, village greens and right to roam - find out your rights
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
Notify the Treasury Solicitor of a sale by a mortgagee of bona vacantia land.
An overview of key points around access agreements between property owners and network operators for the deployment of digital infrastructure.
Ask the court to place a charge on someone's land or property (also known as a 'charging order') so they can't sell it without paying what they owe you after a court order.
What happens if a structure or feature on your land is designated as a flood or coastal erosion defence asset.
Steps land managers can take to sell biodiversity units to meet their biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
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