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Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
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.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Information on the lock keeper service on the River Thames.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
A list of registration charges for Anglian Waterways.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
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.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management
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.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
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