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Contact your council to find out whether they offer a garden maintenance service for elderly or disabled council tenants
Information on inspecting garden and boundary walls
Check if your business can get help from the Growth Support Service, and how to apply.
Arrange for the collection of garden waste by your council
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.
Environment Agency warns poor crop-management could increase region's flooding and pollution
Find out how to apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
What structural alterations are, when and how to apply for permission, how they may affect your home's value and what you owe on your equity loan.
Disputes with neighbours - noisy neighbours, barking dogs, statutory nuisances, high hedges, mediation and when your council can step in
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
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