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As a local authority or local planning authority, when to publish your biodiversity report and what to include.
Read about temporary adjustments to agri-environment scheme options and actions in 2024 due to wet weather.
How to participate in the Green Deal as an assessor, provider or installer, including certification and compliance with the Code of Practice
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
When and how risk management authorities should use climate change allowances for flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
FCERM projects can share the costs using national and local sources of funding.
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the arable reversion to grassland with low fertiliser input option.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the earth bank creation item.
Applying the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) recommendations in central government and, where appropriate, the wider public sector
The Forestry Commission decision framework for determining when to convert woodland to open habitat, and when compensatory tree planting is required.
Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Terms and conditions for a permit to enter, disturb or alter coal mines or coal on your property.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
Find out about our series of sensitivity maps which indicate where there are likely to be fewer sensitivities to woodland creation in England.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
Protocols and procedures for testing the value for cultivation or use (VCU) of agricultural crops.
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