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The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits and abstraction and impounding licences from 1 April 2022.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
Qualification, compliance and notification requirements for ESOS.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Find out if you need to carry out the sequential test as part of your flood risk assessment and how to complete one.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
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