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How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Sets out new information and methods to understand the possible impacts of a changing climate on deterioration of flood defence assets.
The Environment Agency has produced new practical guidance for asset managers on ways of assessing deterioration of typical flood and coastal defence assets and their residual life.
How to assess a planning application when there are ancient woodland, ancient trees or veteran trees on or near a proposed development site.
This section describes the aims of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive (England and Wales) Regulations 2017, objectives for specific water body types, the river basin planning process and cost recovery.
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