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If demolition work is causing problems - like noise or obstruction to pavements or roads - you can complain to your council
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Find out why you might get a civil injunction, Community Protection Notice, Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) (formerly known as ASBOs), what it means and what happens if you break it.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
Noise action plans (Round 3) for agglomerations (large urban areas), roads (including major roads) and railways (including major railways).
Information to help you answer your query before you contact us.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
How councils assess and deal with nuisance odours from industrial, trade and business premises.
Midlands Region, Judge D.Barlow and Mr R P Cammidge FRICS on 14 January 2022
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Sets out when planning permission is required and different types of planning permission which may be granted.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
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