Open consultation

Environment Permitting: H5 site condition report – Proposals for updated guidance

Applies to England

Summary

We want your views on our proposals to update the guidance Environmental Permitting: H5 site condition report

This consultation is being held on another website.

This consultation closes at

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is published, the 2013 site condition report guidance and Regulatory Guidance Note 9 (RGN9) – Surrender will be withdrawn.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.

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Published 24 November 2025

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