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How to assess a planning application when there are great crested newts on or near a proposed development site.
Details for owners, operators, and masters of vessels on inland waters, including categorisation, how to apply, safety requirements and best practice.
Countryside Stewardship agreement holders must follow these terms and conditions if they applied for an agreement on or after 2 January 2025.
Approval process for gas and electricity meters under the Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1153) (MIR).
Comprehensive help for those operating, regulating or interested in facilities that are covered by the Environmental Permitting regulations.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects – and report actions taken under a licence.
How to register for the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme to move or sell food in Northern Ireland.
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Establishments approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and how competent authorities can change the establishment list.
How to use the maps to find out if you are at risk of flooding from surface water.
When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
What a movement is, who needs to report moves, and how to prepare to move sheep and goats.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
Guidance for insulating suspended timber floors.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
Guidance on obtaining consent for development of energy infrastructure: overhead lines.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
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