Natural England - Farmers and land managers

Farmers and land managers

I want to:

• Find out more about Environmental Stewardship or go to a farm event
• Find out about my rights and responsibilities and how to help visitors under the Countryside Code 
• Get land management advice on environmental topics
• Get cross compliance support and advice
• Find out more about catchment sensitive farming
• Find out about the Organic Conversion Information Service
• Get more information on the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) Regulations
• Get more information on the Hedgerow Regulations
• Find out more about the overgrazing and unsuitable supplementary feeding regulations
• See how open access affects land managers
• Find out about heritage landscapes conditionally exempt from inheritance tax
• Apply for a heather and grass burning licence
• Obtain a licence for work around a badger sett
• Reduce losses from my fishery due to fish-eating birds
• Get details of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas and Countryside Stewardship schemes

Tell me about:

• Targeting of Higher Level Stewardship
• How biodiversity is protected and managed
• How geology is protected and managed
• How landscapes are protected
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• Rights of way
• Best practice advice on European protected species (e.g. bats, great crested newts)
• Reducing damage to crops by birds, by deer or by other mammals
• Farm visits and E.Coli 

Forms 

• Environmental Stewardship forms
• Closed scheme forms

Guidance 

• 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