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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 D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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.
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.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on deep peat within a protected site.
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.
How to make a will: making sure it's valid, using a solicitor and changing it when your circumstances change
Use this form to apply for approval to burn unprocessed poultry manure in a combustion plant on your farm or holding.
Interested parties can review records of applications and statements submitted to OPRED as required by environmental regulations.
This series brings together all documents relating to fire and rescue research and analysis.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
Documents relating to the independent review led by Dame Judith Hackitt.
A list of references to test standards that are common across a number of product families which apply to construction products.
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