Corporate information: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs – Statistics at Defra
We publish national and official statistics relating to the environment, rural communities, food, farming and biosecurity.
We publish national and official statistics relating to the environment, rural communities, food, farming and biosecurity.
Competent authorities must give notice of their decision to allow a plan or project that has an adverse effect on a European site to go ahead.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.