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New rules set to maintain protections for hedgerows, Defra says

New regulations to maintain protections for hedgerows will be brought in “as soon as parliamentary time allows”, the Government has said.

The rules for England will reinstate measures such as “buffer strip” between hedgerows and cultivated land, and a spring and summer hedge-cutting ban to protect nesting birds.

The protections had formed part of the “cross-compliance” regime

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