diff --git a/docs/rtd-pip-requirements b/docs/rtd-pip-requirements
deleted file mode 100644
index 04321f2198d..00000000000
--- a/docs/rtd-pip-requirements
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-### TARDIS requirements ###
-python==2
-numpy==1.9
-astropy>=1.0.4
-cython>=0.23
-jinja2
-pytest>=2.6.3
-mock
-
-### TARDIS docs requirements ###
-numpydoc
-pybtex
-sphinx_bootstrap_theme
-sphinxcontrib-bibtex
-sphinxcontrib-tikz
-
-
diff --git a/tardis_env27.yml b/tardis_env27.yml
index bf143331de7..3b13b2d72ae 100644
--- a/tardis_env27.yml
+++ b/tardis_env27.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ dependencies:
 # RTD requirements
 - sphinx=1.5.1
 - nbconvert=4.2.0
-- numpydoc=0.5
+- numpydoc=0.8
 - docutils=0.13.1
 - nbformat=4.0.1