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Environmental Permitting Regulations - Landfill Sites Quarterly Summary

Publisher
Environment Agency
Updated
24 September 2026
Topic
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Summary

The Environmental Permitting Regulations brought together the IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive (EC/61/96) and the Waste Management Licensing Regulations in England and Wales. Facilities covered by this legislation are known as Installations or Waste Operations and include permitted operational and closed landfill sites.

Further information on the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) and the IPPC directive is available on www.gov.uk

This dataset covers all permitted landfill sites within the EPR regime and may be installations or waste operations.

The dataset will be updated quarterly. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved.

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
29 July 2026
Harvest GUID
e5418643-04de-4836-8808-940219694963
Extent (Latitude)
55.816° to 49.943°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date (creation)
2000-01-01
Dataset reference date (revision)
2026-07-29
Frequency of update
quarterly
Access constraints
Special conditions: 1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you. 2. The period of permitted use is one year. 3. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights. 4. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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Environment Agency Conditional Licence (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence), Special conditions:\n1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you.\n2. The period of permitted use is one year.\n3. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights.\n4. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.