>Standard Rules Permits
The Environment Agency have developed Standard Rules permits for activities that apply to certain waste types dealt with in a relatively consistent way so as to simplify the process of application which must now be done online.
Activities and wastes that fall outside the Standard Rules must be dealt with through either a Bespoke Permit or an Installation Permit (where more than 10 tonnes of hazardous waste are received per day).
Standard rules permits are listed here and below (updated 21 March 2022).
Anaerobic digestion including use of the resultant gas and storing digestate
Anaerobic digestion including storing digestate - unavailable for new applications
Car and vehicle dismantling
Car and vehicle dismantling - unavailable for new applications
Composting, sewage or sludge treatment, biogas
Composting, sewage or sludge treatment, biogas - unavailable for new applications
Deposit for recovery
Deposit for recovery - unavailable for new applications
Electrical insulating oil storage
Flood risk activities
Standard rules permits for flood risk activities
Medium combustion plant and specified generators
- SR2018 No 1: Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, base load operation between 0 – 5 MWth
- 8 January 2020
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 2: Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, base load operation 0 – 2 MWth with high background NOx
- 13 September 2019
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 3: Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, base load operation 0 – 2 MWth in Air Quality Management Areas or high ambient NOx
- 13 September 2019
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 4: Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, 0 – 20 MWth of gas or abated diesel engines operated less than 500 hours a year
- 6 February 2020
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 5: Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, 0 – 20 MWth of gas or abated diesel engines operated less than 1,500 hours a year
- 6 February 2020
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 6: Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, base load operation 0 – 1.3 MWth with high background NOx
- 13 September 2019
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 7: New, low risk, stationary Medium Combustion Plant 1 < 20MWth (in operation after 20/12/2018)
- 6 February 2020
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 8: mobile plant Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, base load operation <1 – 2 MWth
- 13 September 2019
- Statutory guidance
- SR2018 No 9: Specified Generator, Tranche B low risk, base load operation between 0 - 0.9 MWth
- 13 September 2019
- Statutory guidance
Metal recycling, scrap metal and WEEE - not cars or vehicles
Metal recycling, scrap metal and WEEE - not cars or vehicles - unavailable for new applications
Mining, oil and gas
Mobile plant for land-spreading or treatment
Radioactive substances for non-nuclear sites
Storage or treatment of waste - recycling, dredging, clinical, soil, tyre shred or wood treatment
Storage or treatment of waste - recycling, dredging, clinical, soil or wood treatment - unavailable for new applications
Waste transfer station or amenity site with or without treatment
Waste transfer station or amenity site with or without treatment - unavailable for new applications
Water discharges
The annual permit fee (‘subsistence’) for standard water discharge permits starts from the date the permit is issued, so you should not apply for a permit significantly ahead of when it’s required.
As well as the 2 standard permits listed in this section, standard permit SR2008No27 (mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products) can also apply to water discharges.
There are currently no standard rules permits for sewage effluent to ground or groundwater.
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