Statutory guidance

Environmental permits and abstraction licences: tables of charges

The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 1 April 2022
• Last updated: 1 October 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

• Publication for Northern Ireland
• Publication for Scotland
• Publication for Wales

Documents

The Environment Agency (Environmental Permitting and Abstraction Licensing) (England) Charging Scheme 2022: amendments up to 1 October 2024

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The Environment Agency (Environmental Permitting and Abstraction Licensing) (England) Charging Scheme 2022: amendments up to 1 October 2024

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Appendix 1: Hydroelectric power water abstraction levels

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Map of Environment Agency regional charge areas

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Details

The charging scheme sets out the Environment Agency charges for activities that require:

• a permit or registered exemption under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016
• an abstraction or impounding licence under the Water Resources Act 1991 and Water Act 2003

To work out your application and annual charges you can use the guidance:

• Environmental permits: when and how you are charged
• Water resources licences: when and how you are charged

For water resources licences you can use the information in the water resources mapping tool to see:

• the surface water availability or groundwater status at the location
• whether the abstraction takes water from a supported source
• whether the abstraction point is in a modelling area

Use this information with the tables of charges to calculate your:

• application charge
• annual charge

If you are applying for an abstraction licence for your hydropower scheme, use Appendix 1: Hydroelectric power water abstraction levels.

Get help

If you have a question about your bill, use the contact details on the back of your invoice.

If you have a question about calculating a charge, contact the Environment Agency.

General enquiries

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Published 1 April 2022
Last updated 1 October 2024 + show all updates

1. 1 October 2024

   Updated the charging scheme document (PDF and ODT) to reflect amendments up to 1 October 2024.

2. 1 June 2024

   Updated the Environment Agency (Environmental Permitting and Abstraction Licensing) (England) Charging Scheme 2022 to reflect amendments up to 1 June 2024.

3. 10 April 2024

   Updated the charging scheme document (PDF and ODT) – removed Kielder from Table 2: Supported Source Additional Charges and created Table 2A: Supported Source Additional Charges for Kielder.

4. 18 July 2023

   We have removed the water resources annual charge indicator tool as it is currently unavailable for use.

5. 4 October 2022

   Updated the 'Water resources annual charge indicator tool' - corrected some errors in the the data behind the calculator.

6. 15 August 2022

   Updated the charging scheme document (PDF and ODT) to correct an error in the 'Tables of charges' section, chapter 4: additional charges, table 2: supported source additional charges. In this table we corrected the definition of 'medium loss' in column six to 200 to 367 megalitres (Ml) per year.

7. 4 April 2022

   Added an ODT version of the charging scheme document as an alternative format.

8. 1 April 2022

   First published.