diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index da06fad25..1c7c7f485 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -7,16 +7,6 @@ APP_VERSION_FILE = app/version.py
 GIT_BRANCH ?= $(shell git symbolic-ref --short HEAD 2> /dev/null || echo "detached")
 GIT_COMMIT ?= $(shell git rev-parse HEAD 2> /dev/null || echo "")
 
-DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG := $(shell cat docker/VERSION)
-DOCKER_BUILDER_IMAGE_NAME = govuk/notify-admin-builder:${DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG}
-
-BUILD_TAG ?= notifications-admin-manual
-BUILD_NUMBER ?= 0
-DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER ?= ${BUILD_NUMBER}
-BUILD_URL ?=
-
-DOCKER_CONTAINER_PREFIX = ${USER}-${BUILD_TAG}
-
 CF_API ?= api.cloud.service.gov.uk
 CF_ORG ?= govuk-notify
 CF_SPACE ?= ${DEPLOY_ENV}
@@ -32,6 +22,15 @@ VIRTUALENV_ROOT := $(shell [ -z $$VIRTUAL_ENV ] && echo $$(pwd)/venv || echo $$V
 
 ## DEVELOPMENT
 
+.PHONY: bootstrap
+bootstrap: generate-version-file
+	pip3 install -r requirements_for_test.txt
+	npm install && npm rebuild node-sass npm run build
+
+.PHONY: run-flask
+run-flask:
+	. environment.sh && flask run -p 6012
+
 .PHONY: help
 help:
 	@cat $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
@@ -44,28 +43,10 @@ virtualenv:
 upgrade-pip: virtualenv
 	${VIRTUALENV_ROOT}/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
 
-.PHONY: requirements
-requirements: upgrade-pip requirements.txt ## Install dependencies for running the app
-	${VIRTUALENV_ROOT}/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-.PHONY: requirements-for-test
-requirements-for-test: upgrade-pip requirements_for_test.txt ## Install all dependencies for running the app, development and testing
-	${VIRTUALENV_ROOT}/bin/pip install -r requirements_for_test.txt
-
-.PHONY: frontend
-frontend:
-	npm set progress=false
-	npm install
-	npm rebuild node-sass
-
 .PHONY: generate-version-file
 generate-version-file: ## Generates the app version file
 	@echo -e "__git_commit__ = \"${GIT_COMMIT}\"\n__time__ = \"${DATE}\"" > ${APP_VERSION_FILE}
 
-.PHONY: build
-build: frontend requirements-for-test generate-version-file ## Build project
-	npm run build
-
 .PHONY: test
 test: ## Run tests
 	./scripts/run_tests.sh
@@ -79,50 +60,6 @@ freeze-requirements: ## create static requirements.txt
 	${VIRTUALENV_ROOT}/bin/pip install pip-tools
 	${VIRTUALENV_ROOT}/bin/pip-compile requirements.in
 
-.PHONY: prepare-docker-build-image
-prepare-docker-build-image: ## Prepare the Docker builder image
-	make -C docker build
-
-define run_docker_container
-	@docker run -it --rm \
-		--name "${DOCKER_CONTAINER_PREFIX}-${1}" \
-		-v "`pwd`:/var/project" \
-		-e UID=$(shell id -u) \
-		-e GID=$(shell id -g) \
-		-e GIT_COMMIT=${GIT_COMMIT} \
-		-e BUILD_NUMBER=${BUILD_NUMBER} \
-		-e BUILD_URL=${BUILD_URL} \
-		-e http_proxy="${HTTP_PROXY}" \
-		-e HTTP_PROXY="${HTTP_PROXY}" \
-		-e https_proxy="${HTTPS_PROXY}" \
-		-e HTTPS_PROXY="${HTTPS_PROXY}" \
-		-e NO_PROXY="${NO_PROXY}" \
-		-e CI_NAME=${CI_NAME} \
-		-e CI_BUILD_NUMBER=${BUILD_NUMBER} \
-		-e CI_BUILD_URL=${BUILD_URL} \
-		-e CI_BRANCH=${GIT_BRANCH} \
-		-e CI_PULL_REQUEST=${CI_PULL_REQUEST} \
-		-e CF_API="${CF_API}" \
-		-e CF_USERNAME="${CF_USERNAME}" \
-		-e CF_PASSWORD="${CF_PASSWORD}" \
-		-e CF_ORG="${CF_ORG}" \
-		-e CF_SPACE="${CF_SPACE}" \
-		${DOCKER_BUILDER_IMAGE_NAME} \
-		${2}
-endef
-
-.PHONY: build-with-docker
-build-with-docker: prepare-docker-build-image ## Build inside a Docker container
-	$(call run_docker_container,build,gosu hostuser make build)
-
-.PHONY: test-with-docker
-test-with-docker: prepare-docker-build-image ## Run tests inside a Docker container
-	$(call run_docker_container,test,gosu hostuser make test)
-
-.PHONY: clean-docker-containers
-clean-docker-containers: ## Clean up any remaining docker containers
-	docker rm -f $(shell docker ps -q -f "name=${DOCKER_CONTAINER_PREFIX}") 2> /dev/null || true
-
 .PHONY: clean
 clean:
 	rm -rf node_modules cache target ${CF_MANIFEST_PATH}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f2f06becf..90b9e7ae2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,109 +2,31 @@
 
 GOV.UK Notify admin application - https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/
 
-## Features of this application
-
  - Register and manage users
  - Create and manage services
  - Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
  - Show history of notifications
 
-## First-time setup
+## Setting up
 
-### 1. Install Homebrew
+### Python version
 
-Install [Homebrew](https://brew.sh), a package manager for OSX:
+At the moment we run Python 3.6 in production.
 
-```shell
-/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
-```
-
-### 2. Make sure you're using correct language versions
-
-Languages needed
-- Python 3.6.x
-- [Node](https://nodejs.org/) 10.15.3 or greater
-- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) 6.4.1 or greater
-
-Need to install node? Run:
+### NPM packages
 
 ```shell
 brew install node
 ```
 
-#### 2.1. `pyenv` For Python version management
-
-[pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv) is a program to manage and swap between different versions of Python. To install:
-
-```shell
-brew install pyenv
-```
-
-And then follow the further installation instructions in https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv#installation to configure it.
-
-#### 2.2. `n` For Node version management
-
-[NPM](npmjs.org) is Node's package management tool. `n` is a tool for managing
-different versions of Node. The following installs `n` and uses the long term support (LTS)
-version of Node.
+[NPM](npmjs.org) is Node's package management tool. `n` is a tool for managing different versions of Node. The following installs `n` and uses the long term support (LTS) version of Node.
 
 ```shell
 npm install -g n
 n lts
 ```
 
-### 3. Install NPM dependencies
-
-```shell
-npm install
-npm rebuild node-sass
-```
-
-### 4. Install and use `virtualenvwrapper` (optional)
-
-We suggest using a virtualenv to separate the python dependencies for this project from python dependencies for other projects.
-
-Install [virtualenvwrapper](https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html):
-
-```shell
-pip install virtualenvwrapper
-```
-
-Then follow the [virtualenvwrapper installation instructions](https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html) docs to configure virtualenvwrapper for your terminal.
-
-Set up your virtualenv:
-
-```shell
-mkvirtualenv notifications-admin
-```
-
-If you need to specify a certain version of python you can do this using `-p`, for example:
-
-```shell
-mkvirtualenv -p ~/.pyenv/versions/3.6.3/bin/python notifications-admin
-```
-
-Activate your virtualenv:
-
-```shell
-workon notifications-admin
-```
-
-### 5. Install Python dependencies
-
-Install dependencies and build the frontend assets:
-
-```shell
-./scripts/bootstrap.sh
-```
-
-**Note:** You may need versions of both Python 3 and Python 2 accessible to build the python dependencies. `pyenv` is great for that, and making both Python versions accessible can be done like so:
-
-```shell
-pyenv global 3.6.3 2.7.15
-```
-
-### 6. Create a local `environment.sh` file
+### `environment.sh`
 
 In the root directory of the application, run:
 
@@ -112,53 +34,50 @@ In the root directory of the application, run:
 echo "
 export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT='development'
 export FLASK_APP=application.py
-export FLASK_DEBUG=1
+export FLASK_ENV=development
 export WERKZEUG_DEBUG_PIN=off
 "> environment.sh
 ```
 
-### 7. AWS credentials
+### AWS credentials
 
-Your aws credentials should be stored in a folder located at `~/.aws`. Follow [Amazon's instructions](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-config-files) for storing them correctly
+To run parts of the app, such as uploading letters, you will need appropriate AWS credentials. See the [Wiki](https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-manuals/wiki/aws-accounts#how-to-set-up-local-development) for more details.
 
-
-### 8. Running the application
-
-In the root directory of the application, run:
+## To run the application
 
 ```shell
-./scripts/run_app.sh
+# install dependencies, etc.
+make bootstrap
+
+# run the web app
+make run-flask
 ```
 
-Then visit [localhost:6012](http://localhost:6012)
+Then visit [localhost:6012](http://localhost:6012).
 
-## Updating application dependencies
-
-`requirements.txt` file is generated from the `requirements-app.txt` in order to pin
-versions of all nested dependencies. If `requirements-app.txt` has been changed (or
-we want to update the unpinned nested dependencies) `requirements.txt` should be
-regenerated with
+## To test the application
 
 ```
-make freeze-requirements
+# install dependencies, etc.
+make bootstrap
+
+make test
 ```
 
-`requirements.txt` should be committed alongside `requirements-app.txt` changes.
+## Common tasks
 
+### Updating application dependencies
 
-## Automatically rebuild the frontend assets
+`requirements.txt` is generated from the `requirements.in` in order to pin versions of all nested dependencies. If `requirements.in` has been changed, run `make freeze-requirements` to regenerate it.
 
-If you want the front end assets to re-compile on changes, leave this running
-in a separate terminal from the app
+### Automatically rebuild the frontend assets
+
+If you want the front end assets to re-compile on changes, leave this running in a separate terminal from the app
 
 ```shell
     npm run watch
 ```
 
-## Working with static assets
+## Further docs
 
-When running locally static assets are served by Flask at http://localhost:6012/static/…
-
-When running on preview, staging and production there’s a bit more to it:
-
-![notify-static-after](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/355079/50343595-6ea5de80-051f-11e9-85cf-2c20eb3cdefa.png)
+- [Working with static assets](docs/static-assets.md)
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index c9464a30b..000000000
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-FROM python:3.5-slim-jessie
-
-ARG HTTP_PROXY
-ARG HTTPS_PROXY
-ARG NO_PROXY
-
-ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
-	DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
-	NODEJS_VERSION=10.x \
-	GOSU_VERSION=1.10
-
-RUN \
-	echo "Install base packages" \
-	&& ([ -z "$HTTP_PROXY" ] || echo "Acquire::http::Proxy \"${HTTP_PROXY}\";" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99HttpProxy) \
-	&& apt-get update \
-	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		apt-transport-https \
-		make \
-		curl \
-		git \
-		build-essential \
-		libxml2-dev \
-		libxslt-dev \
-		zlib1g-dev \
-		zip \
-		rlwrap \
-		python-dev \
-		libffi-dev \
-		libssl-dev \
-		libexif-dev \
-		libfreetype6-dev \
-		libjpeg-dev \
-		liblcms2-2 \
-		libtiff5-dev \
-		zlib1g-dev \
-		libpango1.0-dev \
-		libcairo2-dev \
-		libmagickwand-dev \
-		ghostscript \
-		jq \
-		libjpeg62 \
-
-	&& echo "Install nodejs" \
-	&& cd /tmp \
-	&& curl -x "$HTTP_PROXY" -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_${NODEJS_VERSION} | bash - \
-	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs \
-
-	&& echo "Clean up" \
-	&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/*
-
-RUN \
-	echo "Install global pip packages" \
-	&& pip install \
-		virtualenv \
-		awscli \
-		wheel
-
-RUN \
-	echo "Install Cloud Foundry CLI" \
-	&& curl -sSL "https://cli.run.pivotal.io/stable?release=debian64&source=github" -o /tmp/cloudfoundry-cli.deb \
-	&& dpkg -i /tmp/cloudfoundry-cli.deb
-
-COPY tianon.gpg /tmp/tianon.gpg
-
-RUN \
-	echo "Install gosu" \
-	&& curl -sSL -o /usr/local/bin/gosu "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$(dpkg --print-architecture)" \
-	&& curl -sSL -o /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$(dpkg --print-architecture).asc" \
-	&& export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
-	&& gpg --import /tmp/tianon.gpg \
-	&& gpg --batch --verify /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc /usr/local/bin/gosu \
-	&& rm -r "$GNUPGHOME" /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc \
-	&& chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gosu \
-	&& gosu nobody true
-
-WORKDIR /var/project
-
-COPY entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint"]
diff --git a/docker/Makefile b/docker/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 949b58b7b..000000000
--- a/docker/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-.DEFAULT_GOAL := help
-SHELL := /bin/bash
-DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG := $(shell cat VERSION)
-
-.PHONY: help
-help:
-	@cat $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
-
-.PHONY: build
-build:
-	docker pull `grep "FROM " Dockerfile | cut -d ' ' -f 2` || true
-	docker build \
-		--build-arg HTTP_PROXY="${HTTP_PROXY}" \
-		--build-arg HTTPS_PROXY="${HTTP_PROXY}" \
-		--build-arg NO_PROXY="${NO_PROXY}" \
-		-t govuk/notify-admin-builder:${DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG} \
-		.
-
-.PHONY: bash
-bash:
-	docker run -it --rm \
-		-e UID=$(shell id -u) \
-		-e GID=$(shell id -g) \
-		govuk/notify-admin-builder:${DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG} \
-		bash
-
-.PHONY: bash
-bash-hostuser:
-	docker run -it --rm \
-		-e UID=$(shell id -u) \
-		-e GID=$(shell id -g) \
-		govuk/notify-admin-builder:${DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG} \
-		gosu hostuser bash
diff --git a/docker/VERSION b/docker/VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cfbf0888..000000000
--- a/docker/VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2
diff --git a/docker/entrypoint.sh b/docker/entrypoint.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index a57515244..000000000
--- a/docker/entrypoint.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eo pipefail; [[ "$TRACE" ]] && set -x
-
-if [[ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]]; then
-    echo 'docker-entrypoint requires root' >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$UID" ] || [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then
-  echo "UID must be specified as a positive integer"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$GID" ] || [ "$GID" = "0" ]; then
-  echo "GID must be specified as positive integer"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-USER=$(id -un $UID 2>/dev/null || echo "hostuser")
-GROUP=$(getent group $GID | cut -d: -f1 || echo "hostgroup")
-
-if [ "$USER" = "hostuser" ]; then
-  useradd -u $UID -s /bin/bash -m $USER
-fi
-
-if [ "$GROUP" = "hostgroup" ]; then
-  groupadd -g $GID $GROUP
-fi
-
-usermod -g $GROUP $USER
-
-exec "$@"
diff --git a/docker/tianon.gpg b/docker/tianon.gpg
deleted file mode 100644
index 415d54907..000000000
Binary files a/docker/tianon.gpg and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/docs/static-assets.md b/docs/static-assets.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..76c18b143
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/static-assets.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Working with static assets
+
+When running locally static assets are served by Flask at http://localhost:6012/static/…
+
+When running on preview, staging and production there’s a bit more to it:
+
+![notify-static-after](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/355079/50343595-6ea5de80-051f-11e9-85cf-2c20eb3cdefa.png)
diff --git a/scripts/__init__.py b/scripts/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap.sh b/scripts/bootstrap.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 28243ca2d..000000000
--- a/scripts/bootstrap.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Bootstrap virtualenv environment and postgres databases locally.
-#
-# NOTE: This script expects to be run from the project root with
-# ./scripts/bootstrap.sh
-
-set -o pipefail
-
-function display_result {
-  RESULT=$1
-  EXIT_STATUS=$2
-  TEST=$3
-
-  if [ $RESULT -ne 0 ]; then
-    echo -e "\033[31m$TEST failed\033[0m"
-    exit $EXIT_STATUS
-  else
-    echo -e "\033[32m$TEST passed\033[0m"
-  fi
-}
-
-if [ ! $VIRTUAL_ENV ]; then
-  virtualenv -p python3 ./venv
-  . ./venv/bin/activate
-fi
-
-# we need the version file to exist otherwise the app will blow up
-make generate-version-file
-
-# Install Python development dependencies
-pip3 install -r requirements_for_test.txt
-
-npm install && npm run build
diff --git a/scripts/push-tag.sh b/scripts/push-tag.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a74e9a05..000000000
--- a/scripts/push-tag.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-function pretty() {
-  local blue="\033[34m"
-  local reset="\033[0m"
-  while read line; do
-    echo -e "${blue}[publishing]${reset} ${line}"
-  done
-}
-
-function warn() {
-  local orange="\033[33m"
-  local reset="\033[0m"
-  while read line; do
-    echo -e "${orange}[warning]${reset} ${line}"
-  done
-}
-
-function get_sha(){
-    REF=$(git log -n 1 -- VERSION --name-only)
-    SHA=$(echo $REF | awk '{ print $2 }')
-
-    echo "checking out ${SHA}" | pretty
-
-    git checkout $SHA
-}
-
-function get_version(){
-    VERSION=$(python setup.py --version)
-    echo "latest version is ${VERSION}" | pretty
-}
-
-function push_tag_or_die(){
-    TAG_EXISTS=$(git tag | grep -G "^${VERSION}$")
-    if [ "$TAG_EXISTS" ]; then
-        echo "Tag already exists, exiting" | warn
-        exit 0
-    else
-        push_tag $VERSION
-    fi
-}
-
-function push_tag(){
-    git tag -a $VERSION -m "Version tag for ${VERSION}"
-    echo "Pushing tags to github ${VERSION} to Github" | pretty
-    git push origin --tags
-}
-
-function main(){
-    get_sha
-    get_version
-    push_tag_or_die
-}
-
-main
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/run_app.sh b/scripts/run_app.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 67eb6dd17..000000000
--- a/scripts/run_app.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-source environment.sh
-flask run -p 6012