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Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
Check if you need to get permission from the Environment Agency to do work on or next to a river, watercourse, flood defence or sea defence
What needs to be done to manage flood risk and adapt to rising sea levels in Dartford and Erith, one of 23 policy units in Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100).
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
Find out about geological screening, nuclear facility siting, exclusion criteria, reviewing, groundwater, NIREX and radiation risk.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the ditch, dyke and rhine restoration item.
What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Nuclear waste reaches the end of the line, making it safer, sooner.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
Notices of publication and a consolidated list of references of pre-Exit European Assessment Documents for construction products.
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