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Sophia Parkinson

Sophia leads the Landscape Recovery Team. The team is responsible for the design and delivery of the new Landscape Recovery Scheme, including the upcoming pilot projects.

Landscape Recovery: your questions answered

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In February, we launched the first round of the Landscape Recovery pilot. Landscape Recovery is 1 of our 3 environmental land management schemes. To support potential bidders, we hosted a webinar to share information on the application process and answer questions from those thinking of applying. As you can imagine, we received a lot of questions on the day. In this post, we summarise some of the most-asked questions and our replies.

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