In case you have not yet seen, DEFRA have published plans to revise guidance and web pages on groundwater protection. This forms part of ongoing work to make environmental guidance easier, quicker and clearer to understand. 

You can comment on the groundwater guidance plans until 8 May 2015 at: http://guidanceanddata.defra.gov.uk/reforming-water-management-guidance/

The plans are in two parts:

1.       Plans for Future Content - this outlines what the web pages could look like in future

2.       List of Existing Guidance – this is a list of existing guidance documents and the future intention for each. Each document is labelled red, amber or green to indicate whether it will be archived, rewritten to make it clearer and current version archived, or kept.

The smarter guidance reforms are to improve guidance so that users have a clearer understanding of their regulatory obligations. Note that existing regulations are not being changed.

To find out more about the reforms please follow this link: http://guidanceanddata.defra.gov.uk/