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T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
On 25 March 2025 the Environment Agency served a Notice of Revocation of an Environmental Permit under Regulation 22 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 on Reclamet (Holdings) Limited. The No…
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
Standard rules permit and generic risk assessment for new and existing, low risk, stationary medium combustion plant.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
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