There is one set of standard rules for a mobile plant.
The mobile plant shall be for the:
- treatment of soils and the treatment of contaminated material, substances or products
- purpose of remedial action with respect to land or controlled waters.
Technology you can use
The operator is allowed to use the following technology and associated plant necessary for treatment or remedial action, including the use of technology and plant in combination with others listed:
- air sparging
- bioremediation - insitu and exsitu (windrows, biopiles, in-vessel bioreactors)
- biosparging
- bioventing
- chemical treatment (including oxidation, dehalogenation)
- ex-situ treatment of pumped groundwater (chemical treatment, biological treatment, air stripping, filtration, carbon adsorption
- soil vapour extraction (including dual phase SVE)
- soil flushing (including steam injection)
- soil washing
- solidification
- stabilisation
- thermal treatment (including thermal desorption and steam injection), and
- treatment plant for blending, mixing, bulking, sorting and segregating, screening, shredding, particle size reduction and/or particle separation in order to facilitate remedial action.
The operator must submit a deployment form to us for agreement, with the site details, before operations can start.
Applying for a bespoke permit
If you cannot comply with any of the standard rules, or meet any one of the criteria listed above, then you must apply for a bespoke permit. Your application must include additional information about the criteria that you cannot meet and how you intend to control the associated risks.
Cost of standard permits
The cost of standard permits can be found within our charging scheme. Please visit the Environmental Permitting (EP) charges page.
Standard rules
You can find the standard rules sets, generic risk assessment, guidance and application form by using the links below.
Look at the standard rules that you want to apply for and check that:
- the permitted activities include all the ones that you want to carry out
- you can comply with all the other rules.We have written guidance to help you understand how to comply with the rules.
Download and check the rules:
We carried out a risk assessment to develop the risk criteria for these activities to produce the standard rules. We have provided it for your information, but you do not need to agree with it or send us a signed copy:
Record of changes to standard rules and generic risk assessment
A record of the changes to the standard rules and generic risk assessment since they were first published is available from the link below. The record of change was last updated in April 2011. If you operate under this set of standard rules, you must comply with the current version that is linked to this web page:
Guidance on how to comply with your standard permit
Guidance is provided in a document called 'How to Comply with your Environmental Permit'. This is available to download from our Environmental Permitting guidance page:
Application form and explanatory notes
The Environmental Permitting Regulations application form is available from the link below:
Deployment form
The deployment form below is the new version for the old WML2 form. This form is for deployment applications for contaminated land and/or groundwater remediation activities where the operator holds a standard or bespoke mobile plant permit.
Please read through the guidance notes and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) before filling in the form. Please note that we will not accept earlier versions of the form.
