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What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
How local planning authorities can ensure that developers and land managers meet the requirements for biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Find out what happens when you report a notifiable animal disease and how to get support.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Information for anyone who is already consuming or is considering consuming raw drinking milk or raw cream.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
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 from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
Guidance for policy and decision makers to help them consider the value of a natural capital approach.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How to appeal a regulatory decision from the Environment Agency or challenge them if they fail to act in line with the Regulators’ Code.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain species of wild birds to prevent serious damage.
Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.
Apply for funding to create woodland under the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO).
Poultry keepers can get funding for 3 biosecurity reviews at each of their sites. Each site must hold a minimum number of chickens, ducks, geese or turkeys.
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