Policy papers and consultations

We want your comments on our proposed charges for water discharges (including groundwater activities).

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 29 January 2024

How the Environment Agency assesses and scores compliance with environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 16 January 2024

• Abstraction and impounding activities: assessing licence compliance

  This guide explains how the Environment Agency assesses and categorises…

• Discharges to surface water and groundwater: assessing environmental permit compliance

  This guide applies to permit holders with permits regulated under the…

• Radioactive substances activities: assessing environmental permit compliance

  This guide applies to permit holders with permits regulated under the…

• Waste operations and installations: assessing and scoring environmental permit compliance

  This guide applies to permit holders with permits regulated under the…

These documents provide information on how the water environment is managed in the English part of the Solway Tweed River Basin District.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2024

• Summary of the Solway Tweed River Basin Management Plan in England

  1. Introduction The Solway Tweed River Basin Management Plan consists of a…

• River basin planning process overview: Solway Tweed River Basin District in England

  1. Introduction This document sets out the decision making which has…

• River basin planning guide to alternative objectives: Solway Tweed River Basin Management Plan

  In specific circumstances (set out in the Water Framework Directive (WFD)…

• Solway Tweed River Basin District in England programmes of measures: mechanisms summary

  1. Introduction The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England…

Information on the mechanisms (policy, legal or financial tools) that underpin the draft summary programme of measures which translate measures into outcomes for the water environment.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2024

Consultation on draft new guidance explaining the appropriate measures for permitted facilities that store and treat end of life vehicles (ELVs) or components.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 October 2023

We want your views on the preferred approach for calculating TCM attendance and other rules for alternative attendance arrangements.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 October 2023

We want your views on our proposals for a new standard rules permit for capture, treatment and storage of biogas from lagoons and tanks.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 17 August 2023

Environment Agency consultation on its proposed decision to allow NNB Generation Company (Hinkley Point C) Ltd to vary its water discharge activity permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 31 July 2023

How the draft river basin management plans have been updated and a summary of the programmes of measures.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 30 March 2023

We want your views on our proposals to change standard rules permits for medium combustion plant and specified generators.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 29 March 2023

NNB Generation Company (SZC) Limited applied for 3 environmental permits to operate Sizewell C. We want your views on our proposed decision and draft permits.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 28 March 2023

We want your views on the draft plans to help shape the management of the water environment. They will help us update the current river basin management plans.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 22 December 2022

How industrial emission standards and best available techniques will be established within the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 20 December 2022

This statement sets the direction of UK fisheries management.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 6 December 2022

We want your views on our proposals to change standard rules permits for the non-hazardous and inert waste, and metals recycling sectors.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 8 September 2022

Seeking views on the UK’s process for developing ‘Best Available Techniques’ for delivering improvements in industrial emissions.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 August 2022

We want your comments on options for changes to the attendance requirements for technically competent managers, on rules associated with the attendance requirements and implementation timescales.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2022

We’re seeking views on standard rules sets for clinical and healthcare waste transfer stations and treatment of healthcare waste.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2022

We want your comments on our proposed guidance for appropriate measures for permitted facilities that take chemical waste.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2022

The Environment Agency is consulting on new guidance about appropriate measures for permitted facilities that take non-hazardous and inert waste for treatment or transfer.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2022