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Services

  1. Pre-planning application enquiry form (preliminary opinion)

    Use this form to request pre-planning application advice.

  2. 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.

  3. Planning and marine licence advice: Environment Agency standard terms and conditions

    Standard terms and conditions that apply to our charged planning and marine licence advice service.

  4. Registration of your ground source heating and cooling system

    This form is for the registration of low risk ground source heating and cooling systems as exempt from the need for an environmental permit.

  5. Application for new ground source or surface water source heating and cooling scheme: part B8

    Complete if you are applying for an environmental permit and full abstraction licence for a ground source or surface water source heating and cooling scheme.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Smart meters: a guide
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  2. Energy Performance Certificates for the marketing, sale and let of dwellings
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  3. Air-conditioning inspections for buildings
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  4. Heat network metering and billing regulations: compliance and guidance
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Office for Product Safety and Standards
  5. Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Section 215: best practice guidance
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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News and communications

Case study

Self-powered buildings to transform energy use

Innovate UK

  1. Nearly zero energy buildings requirements for new public buildings
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Correspondence
  2. Demand Logic: energy savings breakthrough in buildings
    • Innovate UK
    • Case study
  3. London architects lead the way in sustainable, digital design
    • Innovate UK
    • Case study
  4. Supply chain innovation yields lower-cost, high-quality schools
    • Innovate UK
    • Case study
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Research and statistics

  1. Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates in England and Wales: 2008 to June 2019
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Official statistics
  2. Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates in England and Wales: 2008 to March 2019
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Official statistics
  3. Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: second cost optimal assessment
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Research
  4. Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates in England and Wales: 2018 to September 2018
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Official statistics
  5. RHI deployment data: August 2018
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Building a market for energy efficiency: call for evidence
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 09 January 2018
  2. Reform of the Green Deal Framework: call for evidence
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 23 November 2017
  3. The Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive: further proposed amendments
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 31 October 2017
  4. Modern methods of construction: government response to the Select Committee report
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Policy paper
  5. Making better use of energy performance of buildings data: privacy impact assessment
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Impact assessment
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. ECO and Green Deal Report 2014
    • Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change
    • Corporate report
  2. Written off loans to energy efficiency companies
    • Closed organisation: Department of Energy & Climate Change
    • Foi release
  3. Hazardous waste management facilities: review of incidents
    • Environment Agency
    • Corporate report
  4. Energy Performance Certificate rating of residential properties
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Foi release
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