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Find out about eligibility and requirements for the rhododendron control item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the earth banks and soil bunds item.
As an owner or manager of land, understand how to restrict public access for land management, public safety or fire prevention reasons.
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the plant groups of trees in large guards item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the pruning to restore veteran fruit trees item.
How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
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 eligibility and requirements for the tree removal item.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
Find out how to buy statutory biodiversity credits.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the check dams item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the install temporary water storage features item.
Use this service to estimate the cost of statutory biodiversity credits for a development.
Find out about Natural England’s intention to increase the size of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the relocation of sheep pens only item.
Find out if you can legally drive across common land or town and village greens to access your property.
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