Standard Rules Environmental Permitting (England)

The Environment Agency offers standard rules environmental permits in England for listed activities.

Further permits are now available (waste).

The full list is here.

Note : standard rules permits are cheaper, but

• the rules cannot be varied and there is no right of appeal against them

• any change in operations so a standard permit no longer works for the operation results in a requirement to make it a bespoke permit instead

• if there is a change in the local environment after the permit has been issued (for example due to a change in the definition of a groundwater source protection zone), the operation may need to be upgraded to a standard sufficient for the changed environment, or the permit changed to a bespoke permit