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Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
The D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
This page brings together information leaseholders and other residents should be aware of on fire safety, and remediation of historic building safety defects – including who is responsible for paying for remediation works.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Walker on 17 April 2024.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
Councils across the country will be able to buy cheaper land to help build thousands more social and affordable homes, thanks to new Government reforms.
Export bar placed on the manuscript, formerly owned by French and English royalty to allow time for a UK institution to acquire it for the nation.
The Resilience Capabilities Programme aims to increase the capability to respond to and recover from civil emergencies and provides advice on preparing for a crisis.
Change your protocol, update your authorisation, report safety issues, submit safety updates and complete your end-of-trial study report.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on deep peat within a protected site.
How to make a will: making sure it's valid, using a solicitor and changing it when your circumstances change
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
We handle cases relating to intellectual property disputes about: patents registered designs plant varieties If the amount sought (damages) is under £500,000 then the case can also be heard by the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court . If the amount sought...
Use this form to apply for approval to burn unprocessed poultry manure in a combustion plant on your farm or holding.
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