The Environment Agency is seeking views on the proposed updated guidance for Environmental Permitting: H5 site condition reporting and includes:
- 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
The consultation is available here and is only open until 4 January 2026.
Once the Environment Agency publishes the revised guidance, the 2013 site condition report guidance and Regulatory Guidance Note 9 (RGN9) – Surrender will be withdrawn. It is the Environment Agency's 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.