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You need a mitigation licence if your work will have an impact on plants and animals listed under schedules 5, 6 and 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 that would otherwise be illegal. This includes if you:

• capture, kill, disturb or injure them on purpose or by not taking enough care
• damage or destroy a structure or place which they use for shelter or protection even accidentally
• obstruct access to any structure or place being used for shelter or protection on purpose or by not taking enough care
• pick, uproot or destroy certain plant species

You need to use the A05 form to apply for a licence if you are carrying out work for one of the following purposes:

• preserving public health or public safety
• preventing the spread of disease
• preventing serious damage to livestock, foodstuffs for livestock, crops, vegetables, fruit, growing timber or any other form of property, or to fisheries

You need to use the A05a form to apply for a licence for the purpose of overridi

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