Environmental Permit Applications and Support

Services for every stage of your compliance journey

Whether you are submitting a new permit application, technical assessments to support an application, a permit variation, or even surrending your permit, our environmental consultants will liaise directly with the Environment Agency (EA), Natural Resources Wales (NRW), or Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) on your behalf. We have a 100% success rate to date with permit applications to the EA.

We identify which permit or consent you need, whether standard rules or bespoke, and manage the process from pre-application through to determination.

Every regulated activity, from operating combustion plants to discharging trade effluent, needs the right environmental permit, consent, or exemption under UK Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR). When your business activities have the potential to impact the environment, securing the correct environmental permit is essential. We determine what applies to your business, manage the application from pre-application advice through to permit issue, and handle regulator liaison.

Our services support every stage of the permit lifecycle, including new applications, variations, transfers, and surrenders. We also prepare the risk assessments, Best Available Technique (BAT) Assessments, and management plans required by regulators to secure your permit approval.

Menu of Services

• Environmental Permit Applications
• Medium Combustion Plant Permits
• Permit Variations
• Surrendering Permits
• Regulation 61 BAT Assessments
• Permit Training
• Permit Application Gap Analysis
• Flood Risk Activity Permit Applications
• Trade Effluent Discharge Consent Applications and Variations
• H1 Risk Assessments
• Dust Management Plans
• Fire Prevention Plans
• Odour Management Plans

Before you have a permit, we assist in preparation & decision-making

We work with you to determine what you need before anything is submitted, helping ensure your application is accurate from the outset.

• Permit Training – equips staff with foundational understanding of permitting requirements, useful groundwork before an organisation goes through its first application.
• Permit Application Gap Analysis – reviews a proposed application (or audits an existing permit) to identify missing information before submission, reducing the risk of delays or rejection.
• H1 Risk Assessments – screens proposed substance releases to determine environmental impact; often needed as evidence within a new bespoke permit application.
• Dust Management Plans – frequently required as supporting evidence for a planning or permit application, so this is prep work done ahead of/alongside submission.
• Fire Prevention Plans – required as part of a new permit application (or a variation that increases fire risk); the regulator must review and approve it before/as part of the permit being granted.
• Odour Management Plans – developed and submitted for regulator approval to satisfy permit conditions, typically during application.

We can help with various types of permit applications.

We assisst in your application process itself, removing stress and doubt

• Discharge to controlled waters permits
• Medium Combustion Plant Permits – a specific permit type (for combustion plant 1–50MWth) with its own application route and statutory deadlines.
• Flood Risk Activity Permit Applications – applies where activities are near rivers, flood defences or floodplains; includes completing the application and risk assessments.
• Trade Effluent Discharge Consent Applications and Variations – the equivalent “permit” process for discharging trade effluent to a public sewer (consent from the water/sewerage undertaker rather than the EA).
• Installation permits – for food and drink, energy from waste, incineration, engineering, chemical sectors and more.
• Waste Permits – for transfer stations, waste recycling centres and more.

Once you hold a permit, we provide ongoing compliance & change management support.

Confidently maintain your compliance once you have achieved your permit.

• BAT Assessments – an annual/ongoing compliance review to ensure operations continue to meet Best Available Techniques standards under a permit already granted.
• Permit Variations – used once you’re operating under a permit but need to change what it covers to remain legally compliant (new activity, altered process, transfer to another legal entity, correcting details).
• Surrendering Permits – used when a permit is no longer needed (activity has stopped, or is being mothballed) and needs to be formally closed out with the regulator.