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When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Find out when you are permitted to cut and trim hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
How to use the Rural Payments service to register land and update digital maps.
Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
Find out what you must do as a public body when carrying out or approving activities on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Guidance on how to meet the requirements for an Environmental Stewardship agreement.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads.
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.
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