The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is seeking views on draft proposals for the potential management of commercial fishing in the part of West of Walney Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) inshore of 12 nautical miles.

After a period of informal consultation MMO is considering a management option and would like feedback from all interested parties on the proposed management measure.

The MMO would like any information you feel could be relevant to inform our decision for management at this site. In particular we are interested in understanding the following:

• do you have information about the location, condition or sensitivity of the designated features?
• do you have information about the level or nature of fishing activity in the inshore (0-12 nm) section of the site?
• how the proposed management options affect you? (Please provide evidence of this impact if possible)
• what other effects would the proposed management option have?

Full details of the proposal can be found via the links below, and contact details for your response can be found to the right.

More information on managing fisheries in Marine Protected Areas (MPA).

Contact

Marine Conservation Team

Telphone: 0300 123 1032

Email: conservation@marinemanagement.org.uk

The Environment Agency publish surrenders that they issue under the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).

This decision includes the surrender letter and decision document for:

• Operator name: Humbly Grove Energy Limited
• Installation name: Herriard X Well Site
• Permit number: EPR/HP3338CE/S002

Working with the regulators and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), BEIS has identified an opportunity to improve current arrangements that apply to the regulation of the final stages of nuclear site decommissioning and clean-up. We published a discussion paper on the principle of these proposals in November 2016 and are now consulting on the detailed proposals, in particular the arrangements for exiting the nuclear third party liability regime and for ending the nuclear site licence.

We welcome views from all interested parties, particularly:

• local communities in the vicinity of existing nuclear sites
• local authorities
• nuclear operators and liability owners
• members of the nuclear industry (including the radioactive waste management supply chain)

We will also be holding stakeholder workshops to discuss these proposals.

The Environment Agency publish permits that they issue under the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).

This decision includes the permit and decision document for:

• Operator name: M L Operations Ltd
• Installation name: Lead Works
• Permit number: EPR/UP3138ZQ/V003

Defra have consulted on the future of policy for farming and the environment in England once we leave the European Union. See the full Defra consultation document. This consultation provides a once in a generation opportunity to inform the shape of future policy.

The Environment Agency welcomes the ambition set out in this consultation paper and the opportunities which come with a new approach to our food and farming sector.

To seek the right change for the agriculture sector and the environment, the Environment Agency would like to outline 8 key priorities towards ensuring a more sustainable future:

• protection of environmental standards in future trade agreements
• clear environmental baseline standards ingrained in regulation
• public funding to farmers should be conditional on ensuring these baseline regulatory conditions are met
• public funding should be for ‘public goods’
• a new approach to calculating farm payments for environmental delivery which represents the value the public receives
• larger scale and longer term thinking in delivering environmental schemes
• broadening of the funding base to increase the longer term security of environmental land management measures
• an agri-food supply chain which takes greater ownership for ensuring that environmental standards are achieved