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How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
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.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
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