Guidance

Landspreading: how to comply with your permit

How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 26 May 2022
• Last updated: 4 July 2023
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  1. 4 July 2023

     Removed the reference to the 3-year time period for storing a succession of temporary waste in rule 2.1.1 R13 ‘How long you can store the waste.’

  2. 2 June 2023

     Clarified in rule: 1.2 that to meet the waste hierarchy you must use appropriate measures to prevent, reuse, recycle or recover the waste your operation produces for export or disposal; 2.1.1 R13 ‘How long you can store the waste’ that the Environment Agency will consider your place of storage a permanent facility if it stores a succession of temporary waste for recovery for more than 3 years; 2.1.3 ‘Waste recovery requirements’ that where you use a waste material instead of a non-waste material you would otherwise have to use that the waste is being used in the same way as the substitute would have been; improved and simplified the text on the requirement for a ‘clear benefit’.

  3. 4 May 2023

     Updated as a result of feedback received from people who use this guidance. Main changes: Moved the text on waste storage techniques and waste spreading techniques to the ‘Produce a benefit statement’ guide; Moved and updated the text on waste recovery requirements from the 'Produce a benefit statement' guide to rule 2.1.3.

  4. 26 May 2022

     First published.

Applies to England

• Publication for Wales

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Landspreading: how to comply with your permit

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If you have one of these landspreading permits, use this guide to find out how to comply with the rules in your permit:

• SR2010 No 4: mobile plant for landspreading (land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement)
• SR2010 No 5: mobile plant for the reclamation, restoration or improvement of land
• SR2010 No 6: mobile plant for landspreading of sewage sludge
• bespoke mobile plant permit for landspreading or land reclamation – bespoke permits may have different conditions