Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs documents within the Construction Information Service

• Guidance for local authorities on implementing the biodiversity duty
• Guidance for public authorities on implementing the biodiversity duty
• Guidance for relevant authorities on seeking to further the purposes of protected landscapes
• Guidance for risk management authorities on sustainable development in relation to their flood and coastal erosion risk management functions
• Guidance note for regional assemblies on best practice for embedding sustainable development in their existing core functions
• Guidance on applying the waste hierarchy
• Guidance on municipal waste management strategies
• Guidance on the application of the Hedgerows Regulations 1997: criteria for determining "important" hedgerows
• Guidance on the legal definition of contaminated land
• Guidance on water level management plans for European sites
• Guidance on: directive 2000/76/EC on the incineration of waste
• Guidance to commons registration authorities in England on sections 15A to 15C of the Commons Act 2006. Version 7
• Guidance. Air quality appraisal: damage cost guidance
• Guidance. Air quality appraisal: impact pathways approach
• Habitats directive - guidance on competent authority coordination under the habitats regulations
• Habitats directive: consultation on draft guidance on the application of article 6(4). Alternative solutions, imperative reasons of overriding public interest (IROPI) and compensatory measures - consultation document
• Habitats directive: consultation on draft guidance on the application of article 6(4). Alternative solutions, imperative reasons of overriding public interest (IROPI) and compensatory measures - draft guidance
• Habitats regulations assessments: protecting a European site
• Hazardous waste regulations: Interim guidance on premises notification: Draft
• Hedgerow survey handbook - a standard procedure for local surveys in the UK. 2nd edition
• Highways (obstruction by corporate body) act 2004. Chapter 29. Explanatory notes
• Housing
• Impact assessment - orders under sections 38(8) and 39(12) of the Flood and water management act (incidental flooding and erosion)
• Impact assessment for reducing the threshold for water competition in England from 50 megalitres (MI) to 5 MI
• Impact assessment of the consultation on the registration of new town or village greens
• Impact assessment of update of waterways for tomorrow
• Impact pathways approach - guidance for air quality appraisal
• Improvements to contaminated land guidance - outcome of the 'way forward' exercise on soil guideline values
• Improvements to the policy and legal framework for public rights of way - a public consultation
• Improvements to the policy and legal framework for public rights of way - a public consultation: summary of responses
• Independent panel on forestry - final report
• Independent panel on forestry - progress report
• Industrial activities which have used materials containing radioactivity
• Industrial emissions directive
• Introductory guide to valuing ecosystem services
• Invitation to shape the nature of England
• Irreplaceable habitats
• Keepers of time: ancient and native woodland and trees policy in England. Government's statement on England's ancient and native woodland and ancient and veteran trees
• Key findings, statistical digest of rural England
• Life-support - incorporating biodiversity into community strategies
• Literature review on an adaptive approach to flood and coastal risk management
• Litter strategy for England: annual report (2019-2022)
• Litter strategy for England: second annual report (2018-2019)
• Local air quality management. Practice guidance 1 - economic principles for the assessment of local measures to improve air quality (February 2009 revision)
• Local air quality management. Practice guidance 2 - practice guidance to local authorities on low emission zones (February 2009 revision)
• Local air quality management. Practice guidance 3 - practice guidance to local authorities on measures to encourage the uptake of low emission vehicles (February 2009 revision)
• Local air quality management. Practice guidance 4 - practice guidance to local authorities on measures to encourage the uptake of retro-fitted abatement equipment on vehicles (February 2009 revision)
• Local nature partnerships in England, December 2015
• Local nature recovery strategies
• Local nature recovery strategy statutory guidance. What a local nature recovery strategy should contain
• London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games - the legacy: sustainable procurement for construction projects - a guide
• Low emissions strategies - using the planning system to reduce transport emissions: good practice guidance
• Make off-site biodiversity gains as a developer
• Make on-site biodiversity gains as a developer
• Making an order under Section 14 of the Planning act 2008 - impact assessment
• Making space for nature: a review of England's wildlife sites and ecological network
• Making the best of byways - a practical guide for local authorities managing and maintaining byways which carry motor vehicles
• Managing radioactive waste safely - a framework for implementing geological disposal. Cm 7386
• Marine conservation zones - update: February 2014
• Marine conservation zones - update: January 2016
• Marine conservation zones designations - explanatory note
• Marine conservation zones: consultation on proposals for designation in 2013. Summary of responses
• Marine conservation zones: site designations and summary of site-specific consultation responses
• Marine strategy part one: UK updated assessment and good environmental status
• Marine strategy part three: 2025 UK programme of measures
• Marine strategy part two: UK updated monitoring programmes
• Maximising resources, minimising waste: policy summary table
• Meet biodiversity net gain requirements: steps for developers
• Meet your BNG requirements: steps to take for land managers
• Monitoring strategy for national policy statement for hazardous waste
• National park authorities: an evaluation of planning policies
• National policy statement for hazardous waste: a framework document for planning decisions on nationally significant hazardous waste infrastructure
• National policy statement for waste water - habitats regulation assessment
• National policy statement for water resources infrastructure
• Natural environment and rural communities act 2006. Chapter 16. Explanatory notes (Includes correction slip issued June 2006)
• Natural environment white paper implementation update report - October 2014
• Nature conservation: local sites in positive conservation management in England, 2008/09 to 2017/18
• New guidance for local planning authorities: on European protected species and changes in licensing procedures
• New regulations on hazardous waste: Interim guidance on premises notification: letter
• Next steps consultation: regime for specified (special) water and sewerage infrastructure projects in England - consultation letter
• Next steps consultation: regime for specified (special) water and sewerage infrastructure projects in England - draft notice to be made under the SIP regulations
• Next steps consultation: regime for specified (special) water and sewerage infrastructure projects in England - draft SIP regulations
• Next steps consultation: regime for specified (special) water and sewerage infrastructure projects in England. Provision for specified water and sewerage infrastructure projects in England - impact assessment
• Noise action plan: agglomerations (urban areas). Appendix B: detail agglomeration data. Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006, as amended
• Noise action plan: agglomerations (urban areas). Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006, as amended
• Noise action plan: railways. Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006
• Noise action plan: roads. Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006
• Noise policy statement for England (NPSE)
• Non statutory guidance on the recording of widths on public path, rail crossing and definitive map modification orders
• Non-statutory guidance for site waste management plans
• Note on the withdrawal of ICRCL trigger values
• Nutrient pollution: reducing the impact on protected sites
• One future - different paths: the UK's shared framework for sustainable development
• Our integrated plan for delivering clean and plentiful water
• Our seas - a shared resource: high level marine objectives
• Outcome indicator framework for the 25 year environment plan: 2022 update
• Parish plan case studies
• Part 1A - effective enforcement. Code of practice for litter and refuse. September 2019 (updated October 2023)
• Part 2A and radioactivity - further update
• Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 - local air quality management guidance. Worked examples for the practice guidance (February 2009 revision)