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How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
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.
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.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
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