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Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
Codes of Practice detail the regular maintenance requirements of safety equipment and systems to a high standard, as is required to maintain fishing certificates.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
The safety requirements for systems and equipment that move and control vessels, and make vessels usable for crew, passengers and cargo.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.
How to meet the general binding rules or apply for a permit if you have a septic tank or treatment plant - fees, application forms and exceptions
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