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Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
How to use the maps to find out if you're at risk of flooding from surface water.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Your responsibilities to check equipment for fluorinated gas (F gas) leaks.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
South East byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
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