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Environment Agency

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency

The Environment Agency was established in 1996 to protect and improve the environment. They have around 10,600 employees. Their head office is in Bristol and they have another office in London. They have offices across England, divided into 14 areas listed below.

North

North East
Cumbria and Lancashire
Yorkshire
Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire

West

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire
East Midlands
West Midlands
Wessex
Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

South East

East Anglia
Thames
Hertfordshire and North London
Kent, South London and East Sussex
Solent and South Downs

Responsibilities

Within England they are responsible for:

  • regulating major industry and waste
  • treatment of contaminated land
  • water quality and resources
  • fisheries
  • inland river, estuary and harbour navigations
  • conservation and ecology

Contact EA

General enquiries

National Customer Contact Centre
PO Box 544
Rotherham
S60 1BY
United Kingdom

Email: enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk

Telephone: 03708 506 506 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm)

Telephone from outside the UK: +44 (0) 114 282 5312 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm GMT)

Environment incident hotline

Telephone (24 hour service)

0800 80 70 60