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S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How to apply for a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) permit to move or trade endangered species.
Rod fishing byelaws are rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take in England.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Find out when you are permitted to cut and trim hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
Now closed for applications. Capital items that benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, assessments, improvements and natural flood management.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.
Find out about extensions for CS Mid Tier agreements due to end in December 2025.
The minimum standards that zoos are expected to meet.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
The Forestry Commission controls tree felling by issuing felling licences. Find out when you need to apply.
Guidance to landlords of privately rented non-domestic property on complying with the 2018 ‘Minimum Level of Energy Efficiency’ standard (EPC band E).
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
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