Consultation on more Environmental Permitting changes
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is consulting again on proposed changes to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2010/675.
The following changes are proposed to take effect from October 2013:
- removing the requirement for waste businesses to have to secure planning permission for certain waste operations before an environmental permit can be issued;
- providing a registration scheme for low risk discharges to groundwater from some ground source heating and cooling systems;
- simplifying requirements on regulators in maintaining twin systems of public registers containing information connected with permit determinations;
- possibly transferring the handling of appeals by the Planning Inspectorate to the environment jurisdiction of the First Tier Tribunal;
- making a number of other miscellaneous proposals, including:
- minor simplifications to regulators' handling of standard rules permits,
- simplifying requirements relating to landowner permission to clean up,
- correcting two oversights in respect of permit transfers,
- allowing greater flexibility in relation to the service of notices on the body corporate.
It will run for 8 weeks until 4 April 2013.
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