STANDARD RULES PERMIT
With strict rules and criteria set by the Environment Agency, a Standard Rules Permit is easier to apply and comply with, but you must know that you can meet the criteria before your application.
Documents you will need to supply include the following – and we are able to do the work to generate these:
- Site plans
- Site condition report
- Risk assessments – including groundwater and surface water, environmental and habitat, and bio-aerosol risk assessments for composting sites
- Management system procedures
- Drainage plans
- TCM qualification
- Some industries will need to supply fire prevention plans for combustible waste
- Environmental Setting and Installation/Site Design (ESID/ESSD)
- Waste recovery plans
- Management plans including odour, pest and noise
- Environmental Management Systems
If you won’t be able to comply with standard rules, or your work is taking place in an area which will need further care and consideration – such as near a nature reserve – then it will require a bespoke permit.
We offer advice on which permits would best suit your project, alongside undertaking the work needed for your paperwork and processing the applications for you.
BESPOKE PERMITS
When a permit doesn’t meet the criteria specified within a Standard Rules Permit, you will need to apply for a bespoke permit. How extensive the work involved here is depends on the complexity of your project. Our expertise includes:
- Landfill
- Waste recovery
- Aggregate production according to the WRAP protocol
- Waste transfer and treatment
- Hazardous waste treatment and transfer
- Mobile plant permits and deployments
- Environmental Management Systems
- Surface water and groundwater discharge and abstraction permits
- Local Authority (Part B) permits
- Permit compliance
PERMIT VARIATIONS
If you find that your project changes or evolves, you will need to ensure that your permit changes too. We can ensure that those changes are made, and you remain compliant.
ENVIRONMENTAL EXEMPTIONS
Some waste operations are exempt from environmental permitting requirements, such as storing your own waste. Permissions still need to be applied for, to show that the waste is exempt. There will be limits and conditions to be met. We can help you to acquire those exemptions for your business.
WASTE CARRIERS LICENSES
You must register for a Waste Carriers License if your business, transports waste, buys, sells or disposes of waste, or arranges for someone else to buy, sell or dispose of waste.
FIRE PREVENTION PLANS
A requirement of the permitting process, a Fire Prevention Plan must be completed as part of a permit application. The objective of the plan is to minimise the likelihood of a fire happening; aim for a fire to be extinguished within 4 hours, and to minimise the spread of fire.
It’s of the highest priority to minimise the likelihood of a fire happening, to prevent environmental harm.
We can undertake the assessments necessary to put a Fire Prevention Plan together and ensure its likelihood of being accepted first time.
