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Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
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.
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
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.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
When to use standing advice on site-specific flood risk assessments, and when to consult the Environment Agency.
Use this to help build a business case for investing in multiple small sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) features over a wide area.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
Guidance and resources to help apply the 2025 flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) funding policy for new projects opportunities.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Explains how the 2025 flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) funding policy will work in practice for new project opportunities.
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