Pollution and environmental quality

Services

Report an environmental incident

How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
Sewage discharges: calculator for domestic properties

Daily discharge volume calculator for small sewage discharges from septic tanks and package treatment plants
Environmental permitting: H5 Site condition report

Guidance and templates on how to complete a site condition report under Environmental permitting regulations (EPR).
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.
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.

Clean air zones
- Detailed guide
- 22 September 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Noise nuisances: how councils deal with complaints
- Detailed guide
- 21 December 2017
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
General binding rules: small sewage discharge to the ground
- Detailed guide
- 25 August 2021
- Environment Agency
Nutrient neutrality: update
- Detailed guide
- 20 September 2023
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Nuisance smoke: how councils deal with complaints
- Detailed guide
- 1 May 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

All storm overflows now covered by plan to clean up waterways
- 25 September 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Major £9m project to reduce abandoned metal mine pollution
- 20 September 2023
- Environment Agency and Coal Authority
- Press release
Housing estate pollution sanction sees environment charity get funding boost  
- 30 August 2023
- Environment Agency
- Press release
100,000 more homes to be built via reform of defective EU laws
- 29 August 2023
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- News story
Project to reduce metal pollution complete
- 24 August 2023
- Environment Agency and Coal Authority
- Press release

Homes subject to nutrient neutrality requirements: ad hoc analytical release
- 11 September 2023
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Research
Air pollutants: quantification of associated health effects
- 8 September 2023
- UK Health Security Agency
- Research
Air pollution: link with COVID-19 infection and adverse outcomes
- 6 September 2023
- UK Health Security Agency
- Research
Northern Ireland Carrier Bag Levy Statistics 2022/23
- 17 August 2023
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Carrier bag charge: summary of data in England
- 31 July 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research

Hinkley Point C: water discharge activity permit variation
- 31 July 2023
- Environment Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 26 May 2023
The air quality strategy for England
- 25 August 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Request for information on substances proposed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 2022
- 15 August 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Impact assessment
Nutrient pollution: reducing the impact on protected sites
- 28 June 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in UK (2017): air quality directions
- 22 June 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Department for Transport
- Policy paper

Rural Payments Agency annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023
- 18 July 2023
- Rural Payments Agency
- Corporate report
Whistleblowing about environmental malpractice: annual reports
- 6 July 2023
- Environment Agency
- Corporate report
Strategic noise mapping (2017)
- 21 December 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Transparency
Rural Payments Agency annual report and accounts 2021 to 2022
- 14 July 2022
- Rural Payments Agency
- Corporate report
Particles in the Environment Annual Report - Update Q1 2022
- 6 June 2022
- Sellafield Ltd
- Corporate report