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17 waste codes are construction and demolition wastes (including excavated soil from contaminated sites). Your permit lists the 17 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before you start section.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Environment Agency enforcement position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during utility works repairing water infrastructure mains and connections.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the livestock and machinery hardcore tracks item.
Regulatory position on the classification of excavated waste from unplanned utilities installation and repair.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the resurfacing of gateways item.
Information about class approval for matters which support development under Schedule 17 of the High Speed Rail (London to West Midlands) Act 2017.
Information on the different types of ground investigations HS2 Ltd may need to undertake along the HS2 line of route.
Employment Tribunal decision.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the swales item.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using waste clay in the construction of slurry lagoons or irrigation/winter storage reservoirs.
Guidance to help ensure cultivation for afforestation meets the minumum requirements of UKFS and ensures storage, sequestration and capture of CO2 is adequately addressed.
This page tells you how to identify common constraints and designations within your forestry project’s proposal area and sets out what you must consider or do in relation to individual constraints.
Brochure showing UK expertise in land remediation outlining technologies, systems and ideas used in the regeneration of industrial land.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the cross drains item.
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