Access to water is vital for many industries but without permits and licences, the balance of our water supply would be disrupted, causing impacts on the environment. The role of abstraction licences, environmental permits and waste permits allows regulatory authorities to monitor and control the amount of water abstracted, water discharged, and hazardous waste disposed of, to maintain environmental sustainability.
Abstraction Licensing and Discharge Permits
Our team has many years of experience negotiating with the Environment Agency, SEPA, NRW and other regulatory authorities to secure licences and permits for clients in some of the most environmentally sensitive catchments. This has included catchments ‘closed’ to new abstraction licences.
Landfill and Waste Permitting
With in-depth knowledge and extensive regulatory experience across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, our team will work with you to secure environmental permits (England) and Waste Management Licences (Scotland) for a range of landfill, waste or mining waste operations.
Do you require our expertise with the following?
- Abstraction licensing
- Environmental permitting
- Water resource and abstraction impact assessments
- Annual abstraction returns
- Private water supplies – risk assessments
- Licence trading
- Licence and permit variations and renewals
- Spring and natural mineral water recognition
- Negotiation with water undertakers
- Radioactive substance permits
- Landfill and waste permitting
Tamsin Morey
Principal Water Resources Specialist
Penny Jenkinson
Principal Hydrogeologist
Harriet Robson
Senior Water Resources Specialist
Scheme of Monitoring: The Lanehead Quarry Case
See how improvements to a monitoring scheme were undertaken to reduce costs and focus on the available resources.
A Pragmatic Approach to Abstraction Licensing
With licensing issues in the area, see how we successfully secured an abstraction licence for a spray irrigation system.
Abstraction Licence Success
See how we helped Heronhill modify a licence to allow them to abstract water at lower flows.
A Unique Abstraction Licence
A client in an area closed to new groundwater abstraction licences needed water for spray irrigation. The answer lay in a unique abstraction licence.
Increased Abstraction in Stressed Catchment
How did we increase an abstraction licence within a stressed catchment in the south of England?
Discharge Permit Success
How did we support our client when they were met with a wall of technical questions by the regulator for a new environmental permit to discharge?
Licence Secured in Closed Abstraction Area
See how we achieved a successful outcome for a previously rejected abstraction licence due to groundwater proximity.
