Updated: New RPS added – Land contamination pilot trials and small scale remediation schemes: RPS 215.
The Environment Agency is not currently enforcing the need for an environmental permit in specific cases for some activities.
These regulatory position statements (RPSs) explain when you do not need to apply for a permit for those activities.
Related information:
- Check if you need an environmental permit
- Waste: environmental permits
- Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
If the review date in a RPS issued by the Environment Agency has passed, the RPS remains in force and can be relied upon until it is removed from GOV.UK or marked as withdrawn.
If the RPS says that it expires on a certain date it cannot be relied upon and does not apply after that date.
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