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How to assess a planning application when there are badgers on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Information for developers on how to avoid harming protected areas and species during development work.
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 assess planning proposals that may affect great crested newts if the developer applies to use the Natural England district level licensing (DLL) scheme.
Check if there are restrictions on importing a CITES specimen into Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
How Natural England assesses the condition of SSSIs, and the condition improvement process.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
Find out how much your CITES permit, certificate or registration will cost.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application, and find the form for your referees to complete.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Request initial informal advice or paid advice from Natural England about consent for activities on your SSSI land.
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
Find out how and when you can apply to be an accredited consultant for bat roost mitigation work, how to register sites, and if you need to pay.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
A guide to using the nature restoration levy to discharge specific environmental obligations.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under a licence.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
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