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Statutory guidance: Water voles: licence to displace them for development projects (CL31)

Natural England

August 22
13:24 2022

Register for a licence to displace water voles for development projects

Charge form for CL31 licences

Monitoring form for CL31 licences

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Records and reporting template for CL31 licences (form LR31)

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You must have a licence to displace water voles for development.

This licence allows you to intentionally damage or destroy water vole burrows or displace water voles for development projects. This includes:

  • cutting vegetation back to bare earth in the spring
  • carrying out a destructive search of water vole burrows to displace them from their burrows after removing vegetation
  • destroying w

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