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Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
For each activity there is a set of rules and a risk assessment.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Apply for permits to travel to or through Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine, and the rules you must follow.
Your council has information on parking permit schemes in your area
View a list of environmental permitting applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency.
Apply for a section 19 standard or large bus permit.
Permits to travel to or through European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) member countries, and the rules you have to follow.
Find out which licences and permits you need to operate vehicles with a gross vehicle weight above 3.5 tonnes on international journeys from the UK.
View the permits issued by the Environment Agency under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Forms to apply for permits to move and use non-native animals and plants.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
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