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Introduction

About SSSIs

The origins of SSSI designation

The purpose of SSSIs

How SSSIs are selected

The SSSI series, Natura 2000 sites and Ramsar sites

SSSI ownership

Managing SSSI

Designating an SSSI

The stages of designation

Informal Consultation

Approving a new notication

The notification process

Serving notifcations

SSSI notification documents

People we inform, consult and notify

Objections to SSSI notification

Confirming a new SSSI notification

Operations within SSSIs

Operations requiring consent

SNH's balancing duty

What owners and occupiers must do

What SNH must do

Relationship to the planning system

Relationship with certain regulatory public bodies

Changing or taking awconsentay consent

Appeal against SNH decisions on consents and management agreements

Land Management orders

Changes to SSSIs

Changes to SSSI boundaries and denotication of SSSIs

Review of SSSI citations

Review of operations requiring consent and site management statements

Change in owner, occupier or other interest in an SSSI

Access considerations

SNH powers of entry

Public access on to SSSI

Closure of an SSSI for conservation purposes