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Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
How to apply for an accommodation licence for a structure on the River Thames, the licensing requirements, and licence fees.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
The mechanisms, programmes and strategic initiatives for protecting and improving the water environment in each river basin district.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
When fishery owners and suppliers of live fish must get a fish health check. How to arrange the check and how to report the results.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
What you need to do when you start planning your landfill site.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
How the current health of the water environment is assessed and how environmental objectives are used.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Guidance for EEE producers on how to accurately report the weight of EEE they place on the market under the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations.
On 25 March 2025 the Environment Agency served a Notice of Revocation of an Environmental Permit under Regulation 22 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 on Reclamet (Holdings) Limited. The No…
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
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