Notice: Police Rowing Champs: river restriction notice

River Thames restriction information for Friday 21 September 2018.




Guidance: High Speed 2 (HS2) rail – impacts on woodland management activity: operations note 47

7 page summary providing information on:

  • HS2 – Glossary, and phases of work
  • Legislation
  • HS2 – Has permission to fell trees (Phase 1)
  • Landowner – Has a felling licence to fell trees
  • Landowner – Restocking conditions after felling
  • Landowner – Applying for a felling licence
  • Landowner – Has grant agreement for woodland creation
  • Landowner – Plans new woodland creation
  • HS2 – Plans new woodland creation
  • HS2 Phases route map



Guidance: Assessment of potential wildfire risk resulting from planned deforestation to open habitat: operations note 40

26 page summary offering:

  • Purpose
  • Background
  • Context – Policy and regulation
  • Planning for wildfire
  • Preparing a Wildfire Management Plan (WMP)
  • FC review of wildfire planning
  • Contacting Fire and Rescue authorities
  • Sources of further advice
  • Wildfire management plan – minimum requirements
  • Wildfire risk assessment template
  • Wildfire risk and hazard checklist
  • Example wildfire risk assessment
  • Stakeholders for wildfire planning
  • Template letter to Fire and Rescue Service



Official Statistics: RHI deployment data: August 2018

Monthly statistics for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) programme present the number of applications and accredited installations on the non-domestic and domestic schemes so far.




Official Statistics: Rural deprivation statistics

Updated: Minor amendments to the wording on page 1 to improve the clarity of the text.

Deprivation indicator for people living in rural and urban areas based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).

Metadata

Data source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), English Indices of Deprivation (2015), Index of Multiple Deprivation (2015)

Coverage: England

Rural classification used: Office for National Statistics Rural Urban Classification

Next release date: tbc

Defra statistics: rural

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