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How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document F, which sets standards for ventilation in new dwellings.
Check the tariff classification for a modular article with sound absorbing and sound insulating properties.
Find out about geological screening, nuclear facility siting, exclusion criteria, reviewing, groundwater, NIREX and radiation risk.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a proposed new building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)...
This note provides guidance for those undertaking the data collection on external wall systems of high rise residential buildings.
Following a review and consultation, the government has introduced regulations to extend the scope of the ban on combustible materials used in and on the external walls of buildings over 18 metres in height.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Calculate nutrient budgets for developments in the catchment of Roman Walls Loughs SAC.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
A study of 4 duricrusts for use as aggregate for surface dressing in lightly trafficked roads
An update on building regulations and fire safety guidance as part of wider reforms to building safety.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
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