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How to assess planning proposals that may affect great crested newts if the developer applies to use the Natural England district level licensing (DLL) scheme.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
Find out how much your CITES permit, certificate or registration will cost.
The criteria you must meet to secure a licence to release Eurasian beavers into the wild in England.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to survey bats using torches for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application or registration, and what form your referees need to complete.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for scientific, research or educational purposes, including for commissioned surveys in relation to proposed developments.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
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.
Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within their 500m buffer zones.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
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