Environment Agency: This guidance explains how to assess the risk of an activity and decide whether it supports the objectives of your local River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) or meets sustainability criteria. You need to show The Environment Agency that your activity supports the objectives of your local River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) or meets strict sustainability criteria.
You must follow this guide if you are applying for a bespoke permit and one of the following apply:
- you’re applying for a permit for a flood risk activity permit for one of the following types of activity.
- culverts
- channel widening, deepening, straightening or realigning
- impounding structure
- bed reinforcement
- sediment management (including dredging and de-silting)
- bank reinforcement
- embankments and set-back embankments
- by-pass channel
- bank reprofiling
- woody debris installation or removal
- flow deflectors
- bridges & crossings
- outfalls
- your activity could affect a water body that is at high status or high status morphology.
Environment Agency staff can advise you if this is the case.
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