The Environment Agency’s website is to shut down on 8 April, as the site moves to central government’s GOV.UK website.
From 8 April, those wishing to find information on the Environment Agency (EA) and its work – such as information on waste permits and licenses – will need to visit www.gov.uk/environment-agency.
The new EA site will be mobile friendly, and will have a subscription function, allowing users to sign up to daily or weekly email alerts to be notified when EA content is updated.
From 8 April, the old website sitemap will be available to use, but the search function will be removed.
The EA has said that any saved bookmarks and links will still take users to the relevant information once the site is closed, either at the EA’s new GOV.UK address(or at a snapshot of the website on The National Archives).
Email addresses, telephone numbers and online services, such as flood warnings, will not change.
The EA is one of hundreds of government websites moving to GOV.UK, as part of a move intended to make finding information ‘simpler, clearer and faster’.
Eventually, it is expected that all government departments and organisations will be found on GOV.UK.
Find out more about the new EA site.
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