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When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.
Apply for a licence to introduce, keep or farm non-native fish, lobsters and crayfish.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the in-field grass strips option.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (Agriculture) Regulations protect uncultivated, semi-natural and rural land. Find out when and how to get permission to make changes to land.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management.
Get advice from Natural England to help you comply with laws that protect wildlife and the natural environment.
Study uses soil, climate, crop and livestock data to show intensification strategies to increase crop-livestock system
Find out about the SFI actions for integrated pest management, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.
Find out about the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions for buffer strips, what land is eligible and what you need to do to get paid.
How to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the permanent grassland with very low inputs (outside SDAs) option.
Information about the scheme to restore English peatlands and how to apply for funding.
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).
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