Publications

Guidance for anaerobic digestion facilities proposed by the Natural Heritage development team.

Requirements for the spreading of poultry litter, guidance and regulations

Updated guidance for farmers on requirements for the storage and spreading of poultry litter

Natural Heritage Guidance - AD Facilities

A report by the Drinking Water Inspectorate for Northern Ireland on the quality of drinking water in Northern Ireland in 2011.

This information sheet provides general advice for farmers on safe handling of adult cattle, including stock bulls, bull beef, suckler and dairy cattle, and on housing stock bulls and bull beef safely.

Paragraph 37 allows the burial of a dead domestic pet in the garden of the domestic property where the pet lived. 

Paragraph 38 allows the deposit or storage of samples of waste which are being or are to be subjected to testing and analysis if the samples are taken in certain prescribed circumstances.

Paragraph 39 allows the secure storage at a pharmacy pending their disposal elsewhere of waste medicines which have been returned to the pharmacy from households or individuals. 

Paragraph 40 allows non-liquid waste, including WEEE, to be stored pending collection or transport, at a site where it was not produced. 

Paragraph 41 allows the temporary storage of waste, including WEEE1 , at the place where it is produced, pending its collection. 

Paragraph 42 allows the treatment, keeping or disposal by any person at any premises of scrap metal or waste motor vehicles which are to be dismantled in certain defined situations.

Paragraph 43 allows the treatment, keeping or disposal by any person, at any premises, of waste, by that person, if they were carrying on that activity at those premises before 19 December 2003 and, before that date no disposal licence was required under Part ll of the Polluti

Paragraph 44 allows the heating of iron, steel or any ferrous-alloy1 , non-ferrous metal or non-ferrous metal alloy, in one or more furnaces or other appliances, the primary combustion chambers of which have in aggregate a net rated thermal input of less than 0.2 megawatts, fo

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 46 simple exemption

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 47 simple exemption

Upgrade works on Coleraine to Londonderry railway line

A plan of events for Red Squirrel week in October 2012

Paragraph 2 allows the use, under a permit under The Pollution Prevention and Control (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2003, of waste glass as part of an activity within Part B of section 3.3 (the manufacture of glass and glass fibre) of Part 1, Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulation

Paragraph 4 allows the operation, under a permit under the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 of a scrap metal furnace with a holding capacity of less than 25 tonnes and the loading or unloading of the furnace in connection with its operation.