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Application for an environmental permit: part B3.5 new bespoke intensive farming installation permit

Complete if you are applying to rear pigs or poultry in an installation with more than 40,000 places for poultry, 2,000 places for production pigs over 30kg or 750 places for sows.

Applies to England

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Part B3.5: new bespoke intensive farming installation permit

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Guidance for part B3.5

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Complete part B3.5 if your intended activity is limited to intensive rearing of pigs or poultry in an installation with more than:

  • 40,000 places for poultry
  • 2,000 places for production pigs over 30kg
  • 750 places for sows

This is defined under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.

You will need to use an Adobe Acrobat Reader product to complete the form.

Applications we receive from 1 December 2022 must be on this updated version of the part B3.5 form. We will return any that are not.

Updates to this page

Published 13 August 2014
Last updated 26 September 2022 + show all updates
  1. Edited part B3.5 application form and guidance: removed section 6b climate change risk screening questions; updated section 3 to clarify that the management system must meet overarching guidance, as well as sector specific guidance; updated section 6 to clarify that the environmental risk assessment must follow overarching guidance, as well as sector specific guidance; and administrative updates, such as changed payment methods and updated hyperlinks.

  2. Application form updated with new email address and extra text about BACS payments.

  3. We've removed the Environmental permit application privacy notice. This information is now in the Part B3.5: new bespoke intensive farming installation permit application form.

  4. We have made these updates to the part B3.5 application form and guidance: added a new section (6b) with climate change risk screening questions; moved the date of birth information (if required) to a separate appendix and included a revised privacy notice. Applications we receive from 1st December 2019 must be on this updated version of the part B3.5 form.

  5. We've added our environmental permit privacy notice.

  6. This page has been updated by the Environment Agency as a result of the strategic review of charges. The review was consulted on between November 2017 and January 2018. The changes commence from April 2018.

  7. First published.

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