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How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your application is correct.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
How fusion energy is regulated in England and how to find out about environmental permits and other activities at fusion sites in England.
Rye Harbour high water times for each day (morning and afternoon).
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Guidelines for sewerage undertakers in England and Wales as to how to prepare, publish and maintain their DWMP.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility and how to operate legally under the approval.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
When to use hydrological and hydraulic modelling as part of a flood risk assessment for a planning application, and the expected standards.
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