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  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the scrub control and felling diseased trees item.

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the tree surgery for veteran trees item.

  • Rules on buffer strips that you must follow if you have hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.

  • Use National Character Area profiles to find descriptions, facts and data about the different landscapes of England.

  • To help protect Britain's trees and woodland, a felling licence from the Forestry Commission is required to fell most trees.

  • If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.

  • 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.

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the assessing woodland condition item.

  • When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.

  • Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.

  • Find out about eligibility and requirements for the equipment to disrupt tramlines in arable areas item.

  • Rye Harbour high water times for each day (morning and afternoon).

  • How to make changes to the legal status of a public right of way.

  • Find out about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), including how to report sightings.

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

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

  • Find out what grants are available under the tree health pilot (THP) scheme, if you’re eligible and how to apply.

  • Information and guidance on registering land as a town or village green.

  • Information on oak processionary moth (OPM) for those who own or manage oak trees, including private tree and woodland owners as well as local authorities.