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Environment Agency


Contact	Name: Tracy Brightman Role: Customer Contact Team Leader Work Telephone: 01258 483396
Address	Rivers House, Sunrise Business Park, Higher Shaftesbury Road, Blandford Forum
Postcode	DT11 8ST View Map (opens a new window)
Website	www.environment-agency.gov.uk (opens a new window)
Partner Type	Public Sector •
Life Events	Education • Relationships • Health and wellbeing • New to the Area
What we do	The Agency at a National, Regional and local level is involved with numerous forums and networks depending on the particular work area involved. As previously mentioned LEAPs are used as a vehicle to consult on actions across the entire remit of the Agency. Consultation exercises are also undertaken for specific work areas such as those for Salmon Action Plans and Catchment Abstraction management Strategies. The Agency is also responsible for issuing a number of authorisations and permits for which consultation is undertaken on a statutory basis. The South Wessex Area Environment Group acts as an advisory body and a link between the Agency and local communities. It consists of 20 representatives recruited every three years, from a variety of interest across the area.
Contribution to Partnership	The Environment Agency (Agency) was set up. by the 1995 Environment Act and became fully operational on the 1st April 1996. The Agency covers the whole of England and Wales which is about 15 million hectares of land, 36, 000 kilometres of river, and 5, 000 kilometres of coastline. Locally the South Wessex Area of the Environment Agency is based at Rivers House, Blandford Forum and looks after Dorset and parts of Wiltshire and Hampshire. This encompasses an area of about 460, 000 hectares and 1, 100 kilometres of monitored (for quality) watercourses. The Agency is a non-departmental public body with the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as the main sponsor in Government and the National Assembly for Wales in Wales. The Agency has a wide range of legal duties touching on almost every aspect of environmental management. The aim is to deliver integrated environmental management in the following areas: Water - includes water resources, conservation, fisheries and flood defence and f