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How to register and keep your personal and business details up to date in the Rural Payments service.
Find out when you are permitted to cut and trim hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads.
Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
How to use the Rural Payments service to register land and update digital maps.
Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Understand the role of Natural England, local authorities and partnerships when designating or managing AONBs in England.
Find out what you must do as a public body when carrying out or approving activities on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Information and guidance on registering land as a town or village green.
The regulations farmers and land managers must follow when storing more than 1,500 litres of agricultural fuel oil, such as red diesel and white diesel.
How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
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