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Environmental Permitting: H4 Odour Management Guidance

Our consultation on the H4 Odour Management guidance has now closed (closing on 13 October 2009).

The Environment Agency regulates odour under the Environmental Permitting Regulations. 

The guidance has been revised from the October 2002 version of H4 Odour Guidance which focused on activities under the Pollution and Prevention Control (PPC) Regulations. The guidance is aimed at the regulated community, but will also be of interest to our staff and other stakeholders.

You can view the new H4 Odour Management guidance on our horizontal guidance web page:

Our response

We have now published our response to this consultation:

The original consultation documents are still available to download from this page.

Background information

This guidance may affect you, your environmental interests, or your business or organisation. We welcome any comments on the guidance, but are particularly seeking your views on:

1. Our overall regulatory approach to odour
2. The role of Odour Management Plans (OMPs)
3. Any other comments you may have

  • To view the consultation documents, including the guidance, please see the links listed under H4 Odour Management Guidance documents, below. 
  • To give us your views on the guidance, you can use the feedback form provided.
  • If you would like to request hard copies of the documents, or if you have any queries, please email:
  • or telephone 0370 8506506.

H4 Odour Management Guidance documents:

The draft guidance, accompanying documents and feedback form can be downloaded here:

How to respond

The easiest way to respond is to download and complete the feedback form above. Email the form to:

If you wish your response to remain confidential, you must state this clearly when you send it.

What happens next?

We will publish a summary of the responses to the consultation document in autumn 2009. We will consider all of these responses before publishing the final guidance. This is likely to be in December 2009

Further information