The Trails Trust was commissioned by DEFRA to carry out a ‘Test and Trial’ with the aim of incentivising green infrastructure public access and biodiversity creation in land management. This will inform the Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM) and was carried out in the Mendip Hills Test Area. We are pleased to share our Final […]
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2021 DEFRA Tests & Trials
Test 159 – How to incentivise green infrastructure access & biodiversity creation The Trails Trust and the Mendip Hills Team are pleased to be able to publish the final report Background Leaving the EU has given a unique opportunity to redesign agricultural policies and design future schemes that reward environmental land management. The new schemes […]
Response to DEFRA consultation on ELM
In June 2020, DEFRA re-launched its previously paused consultation on the design of a new Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM). This is the response that The Trails Trust submitted:
DEFRA advice on Express Dedication
Below is a letter sent from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to Natural England, in November 2012. The letter was intended to offer guidance on legal and practical issues relating to the express dedication of public rights of way at common law (EDCL) in England. It represents Defra’s view of […]