Guidance: Low risk waste positions: construction, demolition and dredging waste, aggregates and soils
Summary
The Environment Agency has updated its low risk waste positions for construction, demolition and related waste activities. It has replaced one position on treating concrete and silt washings with a regulatory position statement and withdrawn another relating to waste clay used to make cob blocks.
Why it matters
Surveyors involved in refurbishment, demolition or site assessments may need to understand whether waste handling activities can proceed without an environmental permit. The update also reinforces the need to check that any relied-upon low risk waste position remains current.
Key points
- Low risk waste positions can allow certain waste operations without an environmental permit if all conditions are met.
- The Environment Agency may review, change or withdraw LRWPs, so users must check they are still in force.
- LRWP 16 has been replaced by RPS 235 for treating and using water containing concrete and silt at construction sites.
- LRWP 32, covering storing and using waste clay to make cob blocks, has been withdrawn.
Organisations:
Environment Agency, GOV.UK
Regulations:
Low Risk Waste Positions (LRWPs), Regulatory Position Statement 235, Environmental permit
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