Environmental Land Management: policy discussion

Closed 31 Jul 2020

Opened 25 Feb 2020

Overview

Thank you for your interest in the ELM Policy Discussion Document, which sets out our initial thinking for ELM scheme design, providing an update on progress and overview of high-level design options.

The ELM Policy Discussion Document is now closed.

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What happens next

All responses will be reviewed and analysed and be used to help further develop the policy for the Environmental Land Management scheme. A summary of responses received along with our follow up actions will be published by the Autumn.</

Audiences

  • Water/water Industry sector
  • Abattoir Operator
  • Agricultural Landlords
  • Agricultural Valuers
  • All Defra staff and ALBs
  • Angling Organisations and Trade
  • Animal welfare campaigners
  • AWBs
  • Charities/Voluntary Organisations
  • Coastal local authorities
  • Coastal Management sector
  • Coastal Members of Parliament
  • Commercial Fisheries Organisations
  • Devolved Administrations
  • Environmental campaigners
  • Environmental Health Officers
  • Environmental professional services
  • Farmers
  • Fishermen
  • Food Business Operators
  • Food Industry
  • Government Agencies
  • Government Departments
  • Horse riders
  • Horticulture Industry
  • IFCAs
  • Land Agents
  • Landowners and their representative bodies
  • Leisure industry
  • Licensed Gangmasters
  • Livestock show ground operators
  • Local Authorities
  • Local Authorities
  • Manufacturers of livestock identifiers
  • Member of the General Public
  • National Park Authorities
  • Non-Government Organisation
  • Operators of animal gatherings
  • Policy Teams
  • Ports and Harbour Authorities and Estuaries
  • Recreation sector
  • Shellfish Cultivators
  • Stakeholders
  • Tenant Farmers
  • Tourism industry
  • Trade Unions
  • Veterinarians
  • Vets
  • Walkers
  • Water Abstractors

Interests

  • Access to countryside and coast
  • Air pollution
  • Air quality
  • Animal diseases
  • Animal welfare
  • Animals
  • Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
  • Bathing waters
  • Bee health
  • Biodiversity
  • Cattle
  • Chemicals and pesticides
  • Climate change
  • Common Agricultural Reform (CAP)
  • Common land
  • Conservation
  • Conservation
  • Consultations
  • Dairy industry
  • Deforestation
  • DEFRA Policy
  • Ecosystems services
  • Egg industry
  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Farm management
  • Flood emergency
  • Flooding
  • Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases
  • Forestry
  • Forestry
  • Green economy
  • Green infrastructure
  • Growing and crops
  • Horses
  • Industry organisations representing tenant farmers and landlords
  • Inland waterways
  • Inland waterways
  • Land management
  • Livestock disease control
  • Local environments
  • Local nature partnerships
  • Meat Industry
  • National Parks
  • Natural environment
  • Nature reserves
  • Nitrates and watercourses
  • Non-native species
  • Ozone
  • Peat
  • Pigs
  • Plants
  • Policy and Delivery
  • Pollution Sector
  • Poultry
  • Poultry industry
  • Protecting wildlife
  • Recreational sector
  • Rural Development Programme for England
  • Rural economy and communities
  • Rural grants and funding
  • Rural Properties
  • Science
  • Sewerage
  • Sheep and goats
  • Single Payment Scheme (SPS)
  • Skills, education, training and new entrants
  • Soil
  • Solicitors specialising in agricultural law
  • Sustainable development
  • Towns and village greens
  • Tree and plant health
  • Uplands
  • Water Abstraction
  • Water conservation
  • Water quality
  • Watercourse maintenance
  • Wildlife management
  • Wine industry