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Environmental permits

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Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and Welsh Government
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  1. Check if you need an environmental permit
  2. Change, transfer or cancel your environmental permit
  3. How you'll be regulated: environmental permits
  4. Standard rules: environmental permitting
  5. Risk assessments for your environmental permit
  6. Changes to your Flood Defence Consent after 6 April 2016
  7. Fire prevention plans: environmental permits

Application forms

  1. Environmental permit application form: standard permit, water discharge
  2. Environmental permit application form: new bespoke permit
  3. Environmental permit application form: standard permit, installations, mining waste or waste operation
  4. Land and groundwater remediation deployment form
  5. Application for a flood risk activities environmental permit (charges and declarations): part F3
  6. Application for an environmental permit part B11: standard rules permit for flood risk activities
  7. Application for an environmental permit: part B10 flood risk activities

Check on an application

  1. Access the public register for environmental information
  2. Environmental permitting: notices of applications made
  3. Industrial Emissions Directive (IED): environmental permits issued

Waste permit guidance

  1. Waste: environmental permits
  2. Waste exemptions: storing waste
  3. Waste exemptions: treating waste
  4. Waste exemptions: disposing of waste
  5. Waste exemptions: using waste
  6. Register your waste exemptions: environmental permits (England)
  7. Waste recovery plans and permits
  8. Waste acceptance procedures for waste recovery on land
  9. Waste recovery engineering: create a construction quality plan

A1 installations permit guidance

  1. A1 installations: environmental permits
  2. Best available techniques: environmental permits

Water permit guidance

  1. Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
  2. Open-loop heat pump systems: permits, consents and licences
  3. Tracer tests and remediation schemes: environmental permit exemption
  4. Cutting vegetation in inland freshwater: environmental permit exemption
  5. Small sewage discharges in England: general binding rules
  6. Septic tanks and treatment plants: permits and general binding rules

Radioactive substances permit guidance

  1. Radioactive substances regulation (RSR) for non-nuclear sites
  2. Radioactive substances regulation for nuclear sites
  3. RSR: Management arrangements for nuclear sites

Flood risk activities

  1. Flood risk activities: environmental permits
  2. Register your flood risk activity exemption: environmental permits
  3. Flood risk activity risk assessment for your environmental permits
  4. Develop a management system: environmental permits for flood risk activity
  5. Changes to your Flood Defence Consent after 6 April 2016
  6. Exempt flood risk activities: environmental permits
  7. Standard rules: environmental permitting

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