Thank you Lagopus for some clarifications and filling in a few gaps. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are not affected at present. The licenses there are administered by their own local bodies, not Natural England. In Scotland, the law may also be slightly different (Scots law differs from English law in some details).
Perhaps most critically - only England has been challenged in court ....... whether Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are now challenged, or indeed if there is scope to challenge there remains to be seen.