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Village greens to get new planning measure.
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Owen Paterson speaking at the Association of National Park Authorities Conference
Defra's £20m+ investment in over 800 businesses in English National Parks has benefited enterprises such as 'The Ginger Pig'.
Each year, there are nearly 90 million visitors to the English National Parks, contributing £4 billion to the parks and surrounding areas.
National Park Authorities and the Broads Authority re-appoint members.
New appointments to England’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Conservation Boards.
The Love Your River campaign hopes to get everyone involved in protecting their local river.
This marathon Twitter event will run from 9am to 9pm and will highlight how the public can enjoy their local forests, woodland and wildlife.
Revellers are being reminded to take care this bonfire night before lighting sky lanterns to limit the damage they can cause to the countryside…
Plans in the Growth Bill will ensure communities can develop land in their areas and no longer be overruled by an abuse of Town and Village Green legislation.
Double Olympic gold medal-winning rower James Cracknell and Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon today urged the public to show their…
The new charity will give people who visit and love the waterways a greater role in making them cleaner and more beautiful than ever.
All unrecorded footpaths and bridleways created before 1949 cannot be recorded after 1 January 2026.
If you could make small changes to your lifestyle to protect and ‘Love Your River’, would you do it?
The fund will run initially from 2012/13 to 2014/15 with up to £10 million each year.
This unprecedented funding for a new charity paves the way for the launch of the new Canal & River Trust later this year.
First stretch of the England Coastal Path at Weymouth Bay approved.
Government response to a consultation on proposals to move British Waterways from a public corporation to a new charity has been published.
A consultation on the proposal to abolish the Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) has been launched today by Defra.
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