Natural England - Farmers and land managers

Home Information for Farmers and land managers

Farmers and land managers

Schemes

• Environmental Stewardship
• EU audit of agri-environment schemes
• Cross compliance support and advice
• Energy Crops Scheme
• Environmentally Sensitive Areas scheme and Countryside Stewardship scheme
• Forms
  • Environmental Stewardship forms
  • Closed scheme forms
• For information and how to apply please call 0300 060 0011

Land management

• Land management advice on environmental topics
• Catchment sensitive farming
• Organic Conversion Information Service
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• Soils for Profit (South West)
• Heritage landscapes conditionally exempt from inheritance tax
• How is biodiversity protected and managed?
• How are landscapes protected?
• How is geology protected and managed?

Regulations

• Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) Regulations
• Hedgerow Regulations
• Overgrazing and unsuitable supplementary feeding regulations
• Heather and grass burning licences

Access and rights of way

• Open access and how it affects land managers
• Countryside Code, my rights and responsibilities and how to help visitors
• Rights of way
• Farm visits and E.Coli

Wildlife management

• Badgers, licence for work around a sett
• Fish-eating birds, reducing losses from fisheries
• European protected species e.g. bats, great crested newts, best practice advice
• Birds, Deer, Other mammals, reducing damage to crops

Publications

• Technical Information Notes
• Management handbooks
  • Lowland Grassland Management Handbook
  • The Herbicide Handbook: Guidance on the use of herbicides on nature conservation sites
  • The Scrub Management Handbook: Guidance on the management of scrub on nature conservation sites
  • The Upland Management Handbook
  • The Veteran Trees Management Handbook