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Closed Consultation Published 12 Dec 2025 Environment Agency ↗ View on GOV.UK

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

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

Opened 24 Nov 2025
Closed 19 Jan 2026
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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is published, the 2013 site condition report guidance and Regulatory Guidance Note 9 (RGN9) – Surrender will be withdrawn.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.