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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.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
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 use nature-based solutions (NbS) to support sustainable water resources, including case studies and a literature review.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
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