PART 2Environmental permits

CHAPTER 2Grant of an environmental permit

Consolidation of an environmental permit18

1

Paragraph (2) applies if the same operator is authorised by more than one environmental permit to operate—

a

more than one mobile plant,

b

more than one flood risk activity on the same site or on more than one site,

c

more than one standard facility, or

d

more than one regulated facility on the same site.

2

The regulator may replace the environmental permits (“old permits”) with a consolidated environmental permit—

a

applying to the same regulated facilities, and

b

subject to the same conditions that applied to the old permits, but varied as the regulator thinks fit.

3

The regulator may replace a consolidated environmental permit (“old permit”) with two or more environmental permits ( “ new permits ”).

4

Each of the new permits is subject to whichever conditions of the old permit are relevant, varied as the regulator thinks fit.

5

The regulator may replace a single environmental permit (“old permit”) which has been varied with a consolidated environmental permit subject to the same conditions that applied to the old permit.

6

A variation made by a regulator under this regulation—

a

is taken to be a regulator-initiated variation under regulation 20(1), and

b

may only be made in accordance with regulation 20.

7

Paragraphs 17 to 19 of Part 1 of Schedule 5 apply in relation to the decision to make a regulator-initiated variation and the notification of such a decision.