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How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Guidance documents, risk methods, permits and charge sheets for local authorities carrying out pollution control.
Find out the energy efficiency requirements you must comply with, and how to comply, to operate under an environmental permit.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Local authority permits for Part B installations and mobile plant and solvent emission activities, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Directions to regulators under the Environmental Permitting Regulations, and appeals against pollution control decisions by regulators.
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