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How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Attorney General's jury vetting guidelines on when to use of right of stand by and what procedure to follow.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Who can check your criminal record for a role, the application process and how to recognise a genuine certificate.
You must make sure your car, motorcycle or other vehicle is safe to drive (‘roadworthy’) all year round.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Guidance for employers about DBS checks, including how to apply, registering with the DBS and the code of practice.
When you have to take an ADI standards check (check test), what happens at the test and how your grade is decided.
How and why safeguarding and accommodation checks must be entered into the CMS. Includes the importance of timeliness and updating.
Find out how the accessibility monitoring methodology is used to test websites and mobile apps under the Accessibility Regulations
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. It relates to the definition of higher-risk...
Details on the soil and environmental checks around Grenfell Tower.
Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Get your goods cleared by the National Clearance Hub when moving goods into, out of, or through the UK.
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