Change description : 2025-12-12 11:17:00: The deadline for the consultation has been extended to midnight on 18th January 2026 [Policy papers and consultations]
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is published, the 2013 site condition report guidance and Regulatory Guidance Note 9 (RGN9) – Surrender will be withdrawn.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.