How we work together

Our public participation statement

This describes our overall approach to consulting on applications for new permits and applications to change them:

• Working together: your role in our environmental permitting (edition 2) (PDF, 300KB) 

Working together agreements

We like to have Working Together Agreements with organisations that help us in our decision-making process. These set out what applications they want to see and how they will respond.

We are currently in discussions with various organisations, agreeing how existing ones could be updated and making arrangements for the activities coming into environmental permitting in April 2010. Existing arrangements will continue until the agreements are made.

The following existing agreements are in discussion:

• Working Together Agreement between Environment Agency and LACORS (PDF, 20KB)
• Working Together Agreement between Environment Agency and Water UK (PDF, 20KB)
• Working Together Agreement between Environment Agency and Natural England/Countryside Council for Wales (PDF, 30KB)

We are seeking agreement on the following new ones:

• British Waterways

The following agreement has been updated to cover environmental permitting phase two:

• Health and Safety Executive (PDF, 30KB)

The following have been agreed:

• British Ports Association (BPA) and UK Major Ports Group (PDF, 23KB)
• Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) (PDF, 28KB)
• Association of Sea Fisheries Committees (ASFC) (PDF, 26KB)
• Animal Health (PDF, 27KB)
• English National Park Authorities Association (ENPAA) and the Welsh Association of National Park Authorities (WANPA) (PDF, 22KB)
• Health Protection Agency (HPA) (PDF, 238KB)
• Health Protection Agency (HPA) screening criteria for the Working Together Agreement (PDF, 572KB)

On 1 April 2013 the Health Protection Agency became part of Public Health England, from that date the role of the Health Protection Agency described in this agreement will be delivered by Public Health England.