Open consultation
Environment Permitting: H5 site condition report – Proposals for updated guidance
Applies to England
Consultation description
This consultation is to seek your views on the proposed updated guidance including:
- Environmental permitting: produce an application site condition report
- Environmental permitting: maintain your site condition report
- Environmental permitting: produce a surrender site condition report
- Environmental permitting: stage 1 to 3 assessment completed examples
- Environmental permitting: site condition report template
- Withdrawal of the 2013 H5 Site Condition Report and Template PDFs
- Withdrawal of the 2013 RGN9 – Surrender guidance
- the requirement for standard rules waste operations permits to produce a site condition report at application
Once this guidance is published, the 2013 site condition report guidance and Regulatory Guidance Note 9 (RGN9) – Surrender will be withdrawn. It is also our intention to withdraw the 2013 H5 Site Condition Report Template and replace it with a revised template subject to responses received as part of this consultation.
Updates to this page
Published 24 November 2025