Flood risk activities: environmental permits
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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.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Check if the activity is on a main river
- Not on a main river
- Check if your activity is regulated
- Activities that do not need permission before you start work
- Activities that need permission before you start work
- Exemptions
- Standard rules permits
- Before you apply for a standard rules permit
- Apply for a standard rules permit
- Bespoke permits
- Environmental improvement work
- Before you apply for a bespoke permit
- Apply for a bespoke permit
- Consultations on permit applications
- Keeping sensitive information confidential
- After you apply
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Flood risk activities: environmental permits’ (updated 11 March 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026