Policy paper: Assessing and scoring environmental permit and licence compliance
Summary
The Environment Agency has updated its policy guidance on how it assesses and scores compliance with environmental permits and licences across several activity types, including waste, water, radioactive substances, abstraction and impounding. The changes clarify compliance assessment outcomes, appeal timeframes, publication of CAR forms, and how certain non-compliances are recorded.
Why it matters
Surveyors may encounter properties or sites affected by environmental permitting regimes, particularly where waste, drainage, water abstraction or contamination issues are relevant. The updates also indicate how regulatory decisions and compliance records are handled, which can affect due diligence, risk assessment and reporting.
Key points
- Guidance updated for environmental permit and licence compliance scoring.
- Appeal timeframes and challenge rights for regulatory decisions are clarified.
- CAR form publication on the Environment Agency online register is being phased in.
- Waste guidance now notes wider climate change impacts for greenhouse gas release incidents.
- New or updated publications cover flood risk activities, abstraction and impounding, and radioactive substances.
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