Environmental permitting
Planning consent decides whether a use is acceptable on a site; an environmental permit decides whether it can operate. We secure both, and run them in parallel where the regulator allows.
What we do
- Bespoke and standard rules environmental permits
- Permit variations, transfers and surrenders
- Definition of Waste Code of Practice (DoWCoP) declarations
- Waste exemptions
- Pre-application advice and negotiation with the Environment Agency, SEPA, Natural Resources Wales and NIEA
- Permits for novel processes and technologies
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- A new waste, energy or treatment process with no standard permit
- Importing soils or materials onto a site for restoration or development
- Buying or selling a permitted operation
- Closing a regulated site and surrendering its permit
Sectors: Data centres, Waste and resources, Landfill and remediation, Minerals and quarries
Track record
Recent work
Waste and resources
Municipal solid waste treatment, novel technology
Environmental permit for the treatment of municipal solid waste using a novel technology, issued in under four months.
Leeds
Landfill and remediation
Landfill recapping in a semi-urban area
Planning conditions discharged for recapping a contentious landfill close to housing, with DoWCoP and environmental permitting put in place for importing and treating materials.
England
Discuss a site in confidence
Tell us about the site and what you need from it. One fixed fee, agreed before work starts.