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Information for pest controllers about the rules for using glue traps to catch rodents and how to apply for a licence.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
How to assess planning proposals that may affect great crested newts if the developer applies to use the Natural England district level licensing (DLL) scheme.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the yard - underground drainage pipework item.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery, and report your actions.
How to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.
As a local highway authority (usually a county council or national park authority) you have statutory duties to record and keep public rights of way open.
Find out about eligibility and requirements to carry out customised capital works to manage specific sites or species.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the installation of piped culverts in ditches item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the woodland infrastructure item.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for scientific, research or educational purposes, including for commissioned surveys in relation to proposed developments…
How to make changes to the legal status of a public right of way.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for this item.
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.
Find out about the aim and requirements for squirrel traps and maintenance.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the tree guard (tube and mesh) item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the large wildlife box item.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the pipework associated with livestock troughs item.
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