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Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Land can be contaminated by things like: heavy metals, such as arsenic,…
Your local council or an environment agency will decide if your land is…
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How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
This guide explains how impacts on local environment should be incorporated into a cost benefit analysis.
Helping public health practitioners conducting evaluations – developing a logic model to represent how your intervention works.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
How to use an ethnographic study to evaluate your digital health product.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Organisational definitions of terms concerned with risk and risk-related matters.
Information for manufacturers of medical devices about reporting adverse incidents and field safety corrective actions to the MHRA.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 only apply to “relevant buildings.” This guidance explains what is meant by that term.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
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