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Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
How to manage Eurasian beavers on your land without a licence and when you need a licence in England.
As the owner or occupier of land with a public right of way across it, you must keep the route visible and not obstruct or endanger users.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
This page collates the various existing ethical principles for data and AI, developed by government and public sector sector bodies. It intends to provide clarity and guidance for public servants working with data and/or AI.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Find out about the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions for buffer strips, what land is eligible and what you need to do to get paid.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
This environmental resource guide seeks to support the rollout of digital infrastructure in England, by providing greater awareness of climate adaptation, environmental improvements (biodiversity gains), and low carbon considerations. The guide is based on England jurisdiction, but has direct relevance...
How to carry out and use landscape and seascape character assessments.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
If you’re an existing Countryside Stewardship agreement holder, or you enter into an agreement from 1 January 2024, read how the end of cross compliance affects your agreement.
Planning practice guidance on biodiversity net gain. Biodiversity net gain is a way of creating and improving biodiversity by requiring development to have a positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
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