Environmental Permits -
Compliance Services and Permit Management

Complete and personalised strategies for handling your environmental permits. Comply to regulations, mitigating potential risks and promote sustainable practices across your project lifecycle.

Environmental permits are required for many industries carrying out activities that may pollute the air, water or land, increase the risk of flooding and/or adversely affect land drainage. Whether you operate a landfill site, a waste operation or a medium combustion plant, or carry out activities that release polluting liquids to rivers, streams or underground, all of these activities and more require a waste management licence or an environmental permit.

Whether you are starting a brand new application, are monitoring and maintaining an existing permit, or require ongoing compliance support with processes, procedures and systems, SOCOTEC is well equipped to support you with a management system for your environmental permit compliance. Our dedicated team of consultants will provide environmental permit guidance, advice, and proactive management to help ensure that your monitoring and reporting requirements are fulfilled on time. Additional services include conducting a risk assessment for your environmental permit, looking at ongoing compliance issues and supporting you with the implementation of remedial actions where required.

Managing your environmental permit proposals

SOCOTEC can support your business throughout the environmental permit application and management process, ensuring compliance with permit conditions and environmental monitoring and control requirements. Our environmental permitting consultants are on hand to support organisations across a range of sectors, offering a wealth of technical knowledge relating to the waste management and environmental science industries. We can provide a single point of contact that will become familiar with your site and environmental permit and advise on or directly organise regular compliance requirements. For clients that do not have in house resources, we are able to liaise with and report to the Environment Agency, SEPA or other regulators on your behalf.

We will ensure that your team remains informed with up-to-date legislation (and all of the potential environmental implications) when collating project reports and documents and conducting audits and risk assessments throughout your entire project lifecycle.

Talk to our experts

John Almond

Business Manager, Environmental Consultancy

John.almond@socotec.co.uk 07483 074662

Environmental Permitting

Applying for a bespoke environmental permit

When it comes to applying for your environmental permit for a business project, there are many different regulations you need to be aware of depending on whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales. SOCOTEC offers an integrated permit management service to guide your business through the process and ensure you remain compliant throughout.

The UK Government website provides specific details and requirements on how to apply for a permit in your local area. It outlines details about exemptions, breaching permit conditions, fines and penalties, as well as a basic overview of the steps you will need to take.

Complying with your environmental permit

As aforementioned, when undertaking a project, there are a number of standards and regulations that you must comply with to ensure that the surrounding environment remains protected at all times. We understand that compliance requirements can prove complex, which is why SOCOTEC’s integrated permit management service will cut through the noise, supporting your organisation with expert advice and core guidance on environmental permitting and actively managing certain compliance requirements such as environmental monitoring.

SOCOTEC’s single source service offering will provide you with the peace of mind that your permit monitoring and reporting requirements are fulfilled on time, with compliance-related issues flagged so that remedial actions can be put in place. Our expert team can also support with the creation of risk assessments for your environmental permits, as well as offering step-by-step guidance on how to make an application for an environmental permit. In addition, SOCOTEC’s digital management software, MiPortal, will be used to visually represent information on the status of your permit compliance.

What are the various regulations in England, Wales and Scotland you need to consider when developing a management system for your environmental permits?

For waste operations undertaken in England and Wales, charges can be brought either under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 or the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Meanwhile, in Scotland, The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 integrates the authorisation, procedural and enforcement arrangements relating to water, waste management, pollution prevention/control and radioactive substances.