Pollution and environmental quality
Services
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Report an environmental incident
How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
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Sewage discharges: calculator for domestic properties
Daily discharge volume calculator for small sewage discharges from septic tanks and package treatment plants
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Foul drainage assessment form (FDA1)
This form may be used as part of a planning application that incorporates a proposed non-mains foul drainage system.
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Natural England’s nutrient mitigation scheme for developers
Apply to buy nutrient mitigation credits from Natural England to offset nutrient pollution from housing development when applying for planning permission.
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Environmental permitting: H5 Site condition report
Guidance and templates on how to complete a site condition report under Environmental permitting regulations (EPR).
Guidance and regulation
- Clean air zones
- Noise nuisances: how councils deal with complaints
- Nuisance smoke: how councils deal with complaints
- General binding rules: small sewage discharge to the ground
- General binding rules: small sewage discharge to a surface water
News and communications
- Producers urged to address ‘flushable’ wet wipes labelling
- UK strengthens pledge to end plastic pollution by 2040
- Asbestos conman ordered to pay back thousands
- UK unlocks funding for operation to avert major oil spill from Red Sea tanker
- Anglian Water fined £2.65m after sewage discharged into North Sea
Research and statistics
- Northern Ireland Environmental Statistics Report 2023
- State of the water environment indicator B3: supporting evidence
- Vehicle Market Surveillance Unit programme results, 2021
- ENV02 - Air quality statistics
- Vehicle Market Surveillance Unit programme results, 2020
Policy papers and consultations
- Revised national air quality strategy
- Hinkley Point C: water discharge activity permit variation
- The air quality strategy for England
- DVSA vision to 2030
- DVSA strategic plan to 2025
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Strategic noise mapping (2017)
- Whistleblowing about environmental malpractice: annual reports
- Rural Payments Agency annual report and accounts 2021 to 2022
- Particles in the Environment Annual Report - Update Q1 2022
- Rural Payments Agency annual report and accounts 2020 to 2021
Organisations
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- Forestry Commission
- Air Accidents Investigation Branch
- Sellafield Ltd
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Defra's Science Advisory Council
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
- UK Space Agency
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales