Standard rules and risk assessments for waste operations
Update: 31/03/2023
Our permitting charges will remain at 2022-2023 rates until any new charging schemes are agreed.
Before you apply for a standard rules waste permit make sure that:
- you understand the standard rules set
- the rule describes exactly what you want to do
- you will be able to meet the requirements of the rules
You can't vary standard rules and you can't appeal against them.
Using waste
- SR2008No27: Mobile plant for the treatment of waste soils & contaminated materials, substances or products
- SR2008No27 risk assessment
- SR2010No04: Mobile plant for land spreading (for agricultural or ecological benefit)
- SR2010No04 risk assessment
- SR2010No05: Mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or improvement of land
- SR2010No05 risk assessment
- SR2010No06: Mobile plant for land spreading of sewage sludge
- SR2010No06 risk assessment
- SR2010No11: Mobile plant for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate
- SR2010No11 risk assessment
- SR2010No17: Storage wastes to be used in land treatment
- SR2010No17 risk assessment
- SR2010No13: Use of waste to manufacture timber and construction products - up to 75,000 tonnes
- SR2010No13 risk assessment
Treating waste
Hazardous treatment of waste
Waste transfer stations
- SR2008No05: Household commercial industrial waste transfer station & asbestos (building)
- SR2008No05 risk assessment
- SR2008No07: Household commercial industrial waste transfer station & treatment & asbestos storage (building)
- SR2008No07 risk assessment
- SR2008No09: Asbestos waste transfer station
- SR2008No09 risk assessment
- SR2008No13: Non-hazardous & hazardous household waste amenity site
- SR2008No13 risk assessment
- SR2008No24: Clinical waste & healthcare waste transfer station
- SR2008No24 risk assessment
Non-hazardous treatment of waste
Waste transfer stations
- SR2008No01: Household commercial industrial waste transfer station (building)
- SR2008No01 risk assessment
- SR2008No03: Household commercial industrial waste transfer station & treatment (building)
- SR2008No03 risk assessment
- SR2008No11: Inert & excavation waste transfer station with treatment
- SR2008No11 risk assessment
- SR2009No06: Inert & excavation waste transfer station with treatment (<250K tonnes pa)
- SR2009No06 risk assessment
Waste treatment activities
- SR2008No19: Non-hazardous (sewage) sludge chemical and physical treatment facility
- SR2008No19 risk assessment
- SR2009No8: Management of inert extractive wastes at mines and quarries
- SR2009No8 risk assessment
- SR2010No12: Treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate – up to 75,000 tonnes
- SR2010No12 risk assessment
- SR2011No04: Treatment of waste wood for recovery
- SR2011No04 risk assessment
Secondary metals treatment
- SR2008No20: Vehicle de-pollution & dismantling (authorised treatment) facility
- SR2008No20 risk assessment
- SR2008No21: Metal recycling site
- SR2008No21 risk assessment
- SR2008No23: Waste electrical & electronic equipment treatment facility
- SR2008No23 risk assessment
- SR2011No03: Small vehicle storage, de-pollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility
- SR2011No03 risk assessment
- SR2012No14: Metal recycling, vehicle storage, de-pollution & dismantling (authorised treatment) facility
- SR2012No14 risk assessment
Biowaste treatment
- SR2018No11: Waste recovery operation - on farm anaerobic digestion facility including the use of the resultant biogas
- SR2018No11 risk assessment
There are standard rules permits available for Part A installations undertaking biowaste treatment:
- SR2018No10v2: On-farm AD including use of the resultant biogas - installation
- SR2018No10v2 risk assessment
Storing waste
Non-hazardous
Secondary metals
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