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The current conditions affecting boaters on the River Thames and what the warnings mean.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Find out if you qualify for ESOS and how to comply.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
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.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
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.
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
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.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
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