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When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the assessing woodland condition item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the deer high seat item.
How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application or registration, and what form your referees need to complete.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the rabbit fencing supplement.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the permanent electric fencing item.
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.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the hard bases for livestock drinkers item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the planting standard parkland tree item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the small leaky woody dams item.
Find out about Natural England’s proposal to designate an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
Use this service to estimate the cost of statutory biodiversity credits for a development.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the woodland infrastructure item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the earth bank restoration item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the restore coppicing in woodland item.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
Find out if you can legally drive across common land or town and village greens to access your property.
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