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Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Increase flood resilience with Natural Flood Management
Understand the role of Natural England, local authorities and partnerships when designating or managing AONBs in England.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
Advice on the role of the Green Belt in the planning system.
How developers can create and enhance habitat off-site or buy biodiversity units to achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).
How developers can use habitat creation or enhancements to count towards their biodiversity net gain (BNG).
How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
Natural England's terms and conditions for applications to the register and payment of the application fee.
Guidance for policy officials in government to identify and assess the wider environmental impacts of their policy options.
20 new nature projects across the country will receive funding to create and restore critical habitat areas equivalent in total to the size of York
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