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Find out about eligibility and requirements for the stone-faced bank restoration item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the water gates item.
Information about the scheme to restore English peatlands and how to apply for funding.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the install and maintain signage item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the temporary deer fencing item.
Find out about Natural England’s intention to increase the size of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Follow the code and guidance if you’re considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation licence.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the check dams item.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
Find out about proposals to improve coastal access in Essex.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for beaver protection infrastructure item
Find out about Natural England's progress with improving coastal access.
Find out when and how to appeal if Natural England refuses you consent to carry out an activity on a site of special scientific interest.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the watercourse crossings item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the large leaky woody dams item.
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