Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from Thames Water Utilities Limited.

Application number

EPR/DP3291SW/V003

Regulated facility type

This is an application to vary a Standard Rules 2008 No 19 permit for non-hazardous sludge biological chemical and physical treatment to a bespoke permit for the recovery and storage of waste at a sludge treatment works.  The process has not significantly changed since the issue of the Standard Rules permit in 2009.  Biological treatment is not undertaken at the facility.

Regulated facility address

The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:

• the installation

• the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate

• the conditions of its site

• the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment

• the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste

• and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered

How to view and comment on the application

If you have any comments on the application send these by 11th March 2025.

You can comment:
Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk

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