Environmental management

Environmental permits: detailed information

• From: Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning, Natural Resources Wales, Welsh Government
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  Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Natural England, Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Low Level Waste Repository Ltd , Planning Inspectorate, and Coal Authority

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• Check if you need an environmental permit
• Get advice before you apply for an environmental permit
• Environmental permits privacy notice
• Change, transfer or cancel your environmental permit
• How you'll be regulated: environmental permits
• Standard rules: environmental permitting
• Risk assessments for your environmental permit
• Environmental permitting charges guidance
• Changes to your Flood Defence Consent after 6 April 2016
• Fire prevention plans: environmental permits

Application forms

• Environmental permit application form: standard permit, water discharge
• Environmental permit application form: new bespoke permit
• Environmental permit application form: standard permit, installations, mining waste or waste operation
• Land and groundwater remediation deployment form
• Application for a flood risk activities environmental permit (charges and declarations): part F3
• Application for an environmental permit: low risk medium combustion plant and specified generator
• Application for an environmental permit part B11: standard rules permit for flood risk activities
• Application for an environmental permit: part B10 flood risk activities

Check on an application

• Access the public register for environmental information
• Environmental permitting: notices of applications made
• Industrial Emissions Directive (IED): environmental permits issued
• Environmental permits: when and how we consult

Waste permit guidance

• Waste: environmental permits
• Storing waste: waste exemptions
• Treating waste: waste exemptions
• Disposing of waste: waste exemptions
• Using waste: waste exemptions
• Register or renew waste exemptions (England)

A1 installations permit guidance

• A1 installations: environmental permits
• Best available techniques: environmental permits

Water permit guidance

• Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
• Open-loop heat pump systems: permits, consents and licences
• Tracer tests and remediation schemes: environmental permit exemption
• Cutting vegetation in inland freshwater: environmental permit exemption
• Small sewage discharges in England: general binding rules
• Septic tanks and sewage treatment plants: what you need to do
• General binding rules: small sewage discharge to the ground
• General binding rules: small sewage discharge to a surface water
• Domestic sewage: discharges to surface water and groundwater
• Groundwater protection
• Groundwater activity exclusions from environmental permits

Radioactive substances permit guidance

• RSR: Management arrangements for nuclear sites

Flood risk activities

• Flood risk activities: environmental permits
• Register your flood risk activity exemption: environmental permits
• Flood risk activity risk assessment for your environmental permits
• Develop a management system: environmental permits for flood risk activity
• Changes to your Flood Defence Consent after 6 April 2016
• Exempt flood risk activities: environmental permits
• Standard rules: environmental permitting