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When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
Find out if you qualify for ESOS and how to comply.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
UK organisations that are affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging may need to get evidence of packaging waste recycling and pay disposal fees.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
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