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Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
Methods and spreadsheets to help you calculate the economic benefits of flood and coastal erosion risk management for new project opportunities.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
How hydroelectric power works, regional schemes and information on installing your own micro-hydro scheme.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from April 2026
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
How to write an odour management plan for your permitted activity.
Use this whistleblowing form to report an environmental issue by your employer.
Find out how to get to Environment Agency locks and weir fishing sites and when you can fish.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
How to develop monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.
The appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment of WEEE.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
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