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Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
Check the transport companies and routes you can use to bring your pet cat, dog or ferret to England, Scotland or Wales.
Guidance to help companies comply with the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting regulations, including greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting.
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors (including retailers).
Register to keep up to 49 birds, including any you’re keeping as pets.
Advice and guidance on protecting animal welfare.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Use this service to apply for certificates and inspections if you export plants from England and Wales.
Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.
Find out about the SFI actions for soils, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the sheep netting item.
As the owner or occupier of land with a public right of way across it, you must keep the route visible and not obstruct or endanger users.
Apply for capital items to benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, and natural flood management.
The MacKay Carbon Calculator provides a model of the UK energy system that allows you to explore pathways to decarbonisation, including net zero by 2050.
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