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Get permission to use nets, traps or electric fishing instruments in inland waters.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Bridge heights and profiles, locks and facilities for boaters on the River Medway.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
From the 1 April 2026 you must pay the Environment Agency (greenhouse gas emissions) charges for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
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