Guidance

Landspreading: apply to deploy mobile plant

Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.

Applies to England

Documents

Landspreading: form LPD1 application for deployment

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Landspreading: benefit statement template

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Landspreading: example location map

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Details

Apply to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste using form LPD1. The LPD1 form guidance explains what information the Environment Agency require to assess your application.

Use these documents to make sure you give the correct information at the right level of detail:

  • Landspreading: produce a benefit statement
  • Landspreading: benefit statement completed example
  • Landspreading: benefit statement template
  • Landspreading: provide a waste and receiving soil analysis

See also these supporting documents:

When the Environment Agency has assessed and agreed your application for deployment, you must operate in line with your:

  • environmental permit
  • agreed deployment form and supporting documents

Planning permission

Waste operations, including some mobile plant deployments, may need planning permission. For example, you may need it for some types of storage, like lagoons. Your local planning authority can advise.

Updates to this page

Published 26 May 2022
Last updated 29 July 2024 + show all updates
  1. Updated the application form so it gives the latest email address (ea_fsc_ar@gov.sscl.com) for sending your payment details and reference number to.

  2. Made updates based on user feedback. Main changes: Moved ‘After you apply to deploy mobile plant’ text from the LPD1 form guidance to the ‘Landspreading to improve soil health guide; Moved updated text on the waste recovery requirements to rule 2.1.3 in the ‘How to comply’ guide; Moved ‘levelling the land’ guidance to the ‘Manage soil health’ guide; Moved the ‘benefits and risks of storage techniques and spreading techniques’ from the ‘how to comply’ guide into the ‘Produce a benefit statement’ guide; Moved the ‘Benefit statement completed example’ into its own document; Moved the text in ‘Identify and describe the soil’ from ‘Manage soil health’ into ‘Waste and receiving soil analysis’; Moved the text on ‘Using soil substitutes and conditioners to 19 12 12 into the ‘Landspreading: benefits and risks of the waste types you can use’ manual.

  3. We have reloaded Form LPD1 due to an error in the first cell in Table B2.1.

  4. Removed from the Details section of the webpage: ' We will accept applications using LPD1 version 3 until 19 August 2022 while you update your systems and processes. After that date, please use LPD1 version 4.'

  5. Removed the paragraph from the Landspreading: form LPD1 guidance - 'We will accept applications using LPD1 version 3 until 19 August 2022 while you update your systems and processes. After that date, please use LPD1 version 4.'

  6. Changed example payment reference number to PSCDEPXXXXXYYY in section C Payment in the Landspreading: form LPD1 application for deployment.

  7. Added a note to say we will accept applications using LPD1 version 3 until 19 August 2022 while you update your systems and processes. After that date, please use LPD1 version 4.

  8. First published.

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