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A dense thicket of Japanese knotweed with bamboo-like stems and broad, light green leaves.

Japanese knotweed: A question of timing and causation

A green tractor ploughs a field on a farm, creating rows of turned soil. Trees with autumn foliage and rolling hills are visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

PFAS: The new environmental challenge landowners cannot ignore

A narrow stream winds through a green, grassy meadow under a bright, sunny sky with a large tree on the bank.

Abstraction Rights and Licences

Abstraction Licensing: Understanding the legal framework

A large wind turbine stands in the middle of golden fields at sunset, surrounded by patchwork farmland and a colourful sky.

New NPPF strengthens planning support for renewable energy

Houses and fields shown from the sky by drone give a unique perspective on UK life on the suburbs

The National Planning Policy Framework 2026

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Proposed draft Nature Restoration Levy Regulations 2026

Aerial view, taken by drone, depicting a group of detached houses in a rural, agricultural area of southeast England.

Taxing nature: HMRC clarifies the taxation of ecosystem services

Vibrant green crops, ploughed fields and pasture, hedgerows and woodland surrounding farms and country homes beside an idyllic rural patchwork quilt landscape from high above.

Environmental Delivery Plans and the Nature Restoration Levy: what’s new?

Sheep grazing on the harsh landscape in Dartmoor

Commons grazing: implications of the Dartmoor commoners case

A row of old stone cottages with slate roofs, small chimneys, and wooden doors line a cobbled street. Some windows have flowerpots, and a few climbing plants grow near the doors.

Energy performance of buildings framework: moving to a more sustainable future

Flock of egg laying domestic hens with brown feathers standing on floor of poultry farm shed with cages in daylight against blurred reflecting background

Animal welfare: changes in policy

Aerial photo of the British country side fields in the winter time showing a river that has burst it's bank to overspill water on the fields, taken in the town of Wetherby in Yorkshire in the UK

Contaminated land: from an agricultural landowner’s perspective

English countryside in summer, Hampshire

Michelmores advises on landmark Evenlode Landscape Recovery Scheme

A muddy field with a large puddle, surrounded by green grassy hills and bare trees under a cloudy sky. Mossy stone walls border the scene, with distant hills visible in the background.

Landscape Recovery schemes: things to consider

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