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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.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
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 the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
When to use standing advice on site-specific flood risk assessments, and when to consult the Environment Agency.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
What flood alerts and flood warnings mean and what you should do when they're issued.
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.
Checklists to help you prepare for flooding.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management
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.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
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