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  • How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.

  • Find out how to apply for funding to improve, expand, automate or mechanise the production of trees and tree seed. 

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the hedgerow coppicing item.

  • How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the rainwater goods item.

  • Use the public registers to find details on proposed forestry work and Forestry Commission decisions to approve or reject proposals.

  • Apply for funding to create woodland under the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO).

  • Details for owners, operators, and masters of vessels on inland waters, including categorisation, how to apply, safety requirements and best practice.

  • Find out when you need a felling licence to fell trees, and what we do if trees are felled without a licence. This can apply to your land, or land you manage.

  • Find out how to kill trees on site using chemical treatments to prevent the spread of pests and diseases.

  • Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.

  • Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.

  • 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.

  • Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the yard - underground drainage pipework item.

  • Information on the lock keeper service on the River Thames.

  • Find out how you could do the SFI actions for low input grassland.

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the deer fencing item.

  • When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the above ground tanks item.