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Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect bats, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
To apply for a mitigation licence, you need to complete an online…
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect great crested newts, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
To apply for a mitigation licence, you need to complete the latest version…
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts during development work and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a protected species for survey, research or conservation work.
Use this form to request Natural England's advice on planning applications and applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect hazel dormice, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to possess European protected species and Habitats Directive (annexes II(b) and IV) species for science and education and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect species protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to do development or other work that may affect otters and find out how to report your actions.
Competent authorities must give notice of their decision to allow a plan or project that has an adverse effect on a European site to go ahead.
Apply for a licence for science or conservation purposes, or register for a class licence to visit roosts as a volunteer or do surveys; find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect water voles. Find out if you need to pay for the licence and how to report your actions.
Apply for an organisational licence for your business for routine activities that affect protected species, and find out if you need to pay.
Use this form to tell Natural England about any actions you took under a European protected species mitigation licence.
Landowners or occupiers should use this form to pay for fast-track advice on a proposal to carry out work on a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Apply for a licence application to sell dead or live protected animals and plants and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to take protected plants for science, education or conservation purposes and find out how to report your actions.
Use this form to register as a trainee volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) with Natural England.
Land owners should use this form to pay for advice on carrying out work on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect smooth snakes or sand lizards and find out how to report your actions.
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