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Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from June 2026
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
On 25 March 2025 the Environment Agency served a Notice of Revocation of an Environmental Permit under Regulation 22 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 on Reclamet (Holdings) Limited. The No…
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site at a specified location.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
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