This report provides a high-level overview of current knowledge of habituation of seabirds to disturbance impacts associated with anthropogenic marine activities in English territorial waters and subsequent habituation to those activities.

The report explores whether habituation is species or activity dependent and informs on the conditions and scales under which disturbance, displacement, habituation and attraction does or does not occur.

This final report sets out the findings of the Multi-Agency Flood Plan review.

The review looked at:

• the effectiveness and consistency of current flood plans produced by Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) in England
• identifying good practice
• how good practice could be shared across the country

The review report includes recommendations under 12 headings.

The review was led and overseen by Major General (retd) Tim Cross, as an independent external reviewer.

Michael Gove (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) announced that Defra and the Environment Agency (EA) would be undertaking a review of multi-agency flood plans (MAFPs) produced by local resilience forums (LRFs) in England. This is part of the government’s ongoing work to address flood risk.

The Environment Agency administer waste carrier licences and the Planning Inspectorate deal with appeals.

The Environment Agency consult the public on certain applications for the abstraction and impoundment of water.

These notices explain:

• what the application is about
• which Environment Agency offices you can visit to see the application documents on the public register
• when you need to comment by