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Defra consulting on amendments to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Defra is currently consulting on potential amendments to the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) 2016 for groundwater activities.  A summary of the proposed EPR amendments for groundwater activities are: To provide an improved hierarchy of regulatory controls for groundwater activities   To provide controls to prevent groundwater pollution from uncontrolled ‘pollutants’  To improve existing control measures for […]

CL:AIRE publishes updated SuRF-UK Sustainable Management Practices guidance

CL:AIRE has just published SuRF-UK’s updated Sustainable Management Practices (SMP) guidance, bringing this 2021 version in line with Environment Agency Land Contamination Risk Management (LCRM) regulatory guidance. SuRF-UK defines SMPs as “relatively simple, common sense actions that can be implemented at any stage in a land contamination management project to improve its environmental, social and/or economic […]