Landspreading: how to comply with your permit
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
If you have one of these landspreading permits, use this guide to find out how to comply with the rules in your permit:
- SR2010 No 4: mobile plant for landspreading (land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement)
- SR2010 No 5: mobile plant for the reclamation, restoration or improvement of land
- SR2010 No 6: mobile plant for landspreading of sewage sludge
- bespoke mobile plant permit for landspreading or land reclamation 鈥� bespoke permits may have different conditions
Updates to this page
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Removed the reference to the 3-year time period for storing a succession of temporary waste in rule 2.1.1 R13 鈥楬ow long you can store the waste.鈥�
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Clarified in rule: 1.2 that to meet the waste hierarchy you must use appropriate measures to prevent, reuse, recycle or recover the waste your operation produces for export or disposal; 2.1.1 R13 鈥楬ow long you can store the waste鈥� that the Environment Agency will consider your place of storage a permanent facility if it stores a succession of temporary waste for recovery for more than 3 years; 2.1.3 鈥榃aste recovery requirements鈥� that where you use a waste material instead of a non-waste material you would otherwise have to use that the waste is being used in the same way as the substitute would have been; improved and simplified the text on the requirement for a 鈥榗lear benefit鈥�.
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Updated as a result of feedback received from people who use this guidance. Main changes: Moved the text on waste storage techniques and waste spreading techniques to the 鈥楶roduce a benefit statement鈥� guide; Moved and updated the text on waste recovery requirements from the 'Produce a benefit statement' guide to rule 2.1.3.
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First published.