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Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
View a list of environmental permitting applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency.
Guidance documents, risk methods, permits and charge sheets for local authorities carrying out pollution control.
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.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Forms to apply for permits to move and use non-native animals and plants.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
For each activity there is a set of rules and a risk assessment.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Complete if you are applying for a new permit, or to change or transfer an existing permit.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
How the Environment Agency uses your personal information in services to support environmental permitting.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Complete if you are applying for a new standard facilities permit.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
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