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Find out about eligibility and requirements for the management of ditches of high environmental value option.
What you must do to get paid for this action and advice on how to do it.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the installation of piped culverts in ditches item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the ditch, dyke and rhine creation item.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the buffering in-field ponds and ditches in improved grassland option.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the buffering in-field ponds and ditches on arable land option.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the ditch, dyke and rhine restoration item.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Use this assessment form with Countryside Stewardship applications that include the WN3 capital item.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
What land use codes to use in 2023 when declaring land in a rural payments application such as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Countryside Stewardship (CS).
What land use codes to use in 2022 when declaring land in a rural payments application such as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Countryside Stewardship (CS).
The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the management of wet grassland for breeding waders option.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the management of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl option.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
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