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When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
Apply for a Temporary Work – Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) visa for work experience, training, research or fellowship - eligibility, extend or switch, family members
£4 million to expand world-leading laboratories to improve UK biosecurity and tackle emerging threats to tree health
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
Information about how to get ESFA funding for post-16 education and training.
This page provides information for local area partnerships submitting expressions of interest (EOIs) to apply for funding to participate in the £10.9 million expansion of the Create Growth Programme.
Details on the new capacity and capability programme, to support local planning authorities to attract, retain and develop skilled planners.
Apply for a UK Expansion Worker visa to set up a branch of an overseas business - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Sets out when planning permission is required and different types of planning permission which may be granted.
Information relating to the Overseas Operations (service personnel and Veterans) Bill.
Apply for a British National (Overseas) visa (known as a BNO visa) to live, work and study in the UK if you or a family member are from Hong Kong and registered as a British national (overseas).
The UK Space Agency will fund 15 projects across the UK designed to engage and inspire the next generation into STEM careers.
Engage with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on SKYNET Enduring Capability (SKEC), the next generation of solutions for future satellite communication programmes.
RIDA funds research and development in new technologies, and new approaches to existing technologies, that support Sustainable Development Goals in south-east Asia.
Apply for funding to support the creation of a new multi-academy trust (MAT) or to expand an existing MAT into a new area.
How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
How the rules are changing to extend eligible Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements from 2024 for 4 years, and what you need to do.
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