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Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
How to report dead wild birds.
When you may need an environmental permit or licence for activities that could pollute, increase flood risk, affect land drainage or affect water resources. Check the rules and get advice before you start operating.
How to apply for Capital grants plans or a Capital grants study and how to manage your funding agreement.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
Find bird flu disease control zones and the rules you must follow in each zone.
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
Information on the UK government’s framework to create UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) by assessing and endorsing the global corporate reporting baseline of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the concrete yard renewal item.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
Guidance for employers who want to put in place a cycle to work scheme.
Sign in to your Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) installer account to apply for vouchers and track the progress of your applications.
Use this guidance to find the risk category and inspection rate for imports of live animals and animal products from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein to Great Britain.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
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