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Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Use this service to apply for yearly registration of PCB equipment with the Environment Agency.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
How and when you can apply for fluorinated gas (F gas) quota in Great Britain.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
How to assess the impact of odour from your permitted activity on the public.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
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.
Standard rules for installing and using boreholes and temporary trial pits within a floodplain.
You can appeal to the Environment Agency if your water company has refused to provide a public sewer connection. Or if you want to dispute when they will provide the sewer by.
Check if you need to pay drainage charges, how much they are and how to pay.
How to apply for an accommodation licence for a structure on the River Thames, the licensing requirements, and licence fees.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
How to apply for funding to deliver water management works that raise water tables in lowland peat soils in England, including eligibility and costs.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from June 2026
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
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