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Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
What flood alerts and flood warnings mean and what you should do when they're issued.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
An overview of the recyclability assessment methodology (RAM). Under extended producer responsibility for packaging, large producers must report the recyclability of some packaging materials
Types of waste and the maximum amounts you can use in building projects, landscaping or drainage works under a U1 exemption.
Explains how the 2025 flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) funding policy will work in practice for new project opportunities.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
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.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
T28 waste exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. T28 exemptions are free of charge.
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
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.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
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