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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.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
This guidance explains your reporting responsibilities as a large producer under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging. It explains how to identify what data you must report and understand which obligations do…
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.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
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.
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.
When you can get permission to trap or remove crayfish in England, how to apply, and rules to follow.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
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.
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