Open consultation

Environment Permitting: H5 site condition report – Proposals for updated guidance

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 24 November 2025
• Last updated: 12 December 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Summary

We want your views on our proposals to update the guidance Environmental Permitting: H5 site condition report

This consultation is being held on another website.

This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 18 January 2026

Consultation description

This consultation is to seek your views on the proposed updated guidance including:

• Environmental permitting: produce an application site condition report
• Environmental permitting: maintain your site condition report
• Environmental permitting: produce a surrender site condition report
• Environmental permitting: stage 1 to 3 assessment completed examples
• Environmental permitting: site condition report template
• Withdrawal of the 2013 H5 Site Condition Report and Template PDFs
• Withdrawal of the 2013 RGN9 – Surrender guidance
• the requirement for standard rules waste operations permits to produce a site condition report at application

Once this guidance is published, the 2013 site condition report guidance and Regulatory Guidance Note 9 (RGN9) – Surrender will be withdrawn. It is also our intention to withdraw the 2013 H5 Site Condition Report Template and replace it with a revised template subject to responses received as part of this consultation.

Published 24 November 2025

Last updated 12 December 2025 + show all updates

1. 12 December 2025

   The deadline for the consultation has been extended to midnight on 18th January 2026

2. 24 November 2025

   First published.