For over 30 years, we’ve been helping clients confidently navigate the complexities of environmental permitting and planning. Our team is highly qualified, chartered, and brings a wealth of practical experience, commercial awareness, and a strong record of success.
We secure permissions, permits, and consents, and offer independent reviews of sites, activities, and investment projects. These assessments identify potential risks and benefits, outline approval and compliance requirements, and explore available approaches.
Crucially, we support, guide, and mentor our clients throughout the process — giving you peace of mind.
Whether you’re planning a new development, modifying an existing activity, or addressing regulatory changes — like the Environment Agency’s permit consolidation, a Regulation 61 notice, or the removal of a permit exemption — our team is here to help. Get in touch to speak with one of our experts.
We offer a standalone service that delivers a fast, focused review of your site, activity, or proposal — providing clear, tailored guidance on your regulatory requirements.
Whether you’re planning it, operating it or investing in it. Contact Us Now!
The success of planning applications and land developments rely on the quality of their assessment of the environmental impacts and meticulous attention to their interactive consequences and influence on design and operation.
ACT Environmental offer planning consultancy services to help clients with business ventures from overseeing the entire planning process from a scheme’s inception including site identification, environmental assessment, permission application, discharge conditions to straight forward opinion and advice.
Activities, Installations & Mobile Plant require environmental permits (Bespoke, Standard Rules, Part A’s, Part B’s, Medium Combustion Plant, Small Waste Incineration Plant), Water Abstraction & water Discharge Consents to operate unless registered exempt or compliant with a Regulatory Position Statement (RPS).
Our forte is troubleshooting to resolve complications in the planning or permitting system.
We address non-compliance issues, collate the evidence for appeals & defence against threatened enforcement.
Proposals, operations and documentation reviews are undertaken on behalf of investors, landowners, developers and operators.
Review works, or times referenced as audits, encapsulate our experience-based knowledge
Requirements of planning and waste management matters are central to the services ACT Environmental delivers to the construction and demolition industries.
ACT Environmental’s forte is gaining the planning permissions and permits required to win, work and process minerals.
Whatever the waste type, ACT Environmental delivers the necessary planning permissions and permits.
We deliver land use and approval appraisals, independent reviews of lessors planning & permit submissions, applications, appeals, variations, representations & resolve controversies.
Advising on technology selection and revenue sources through to emissions mitigation and compliance monitoring, ACT Environmental are practiced in the delivery of planning solutions and operating permits.
Development activity on farms is accelerating and a proportion of our works are to deliver the planning and specifically the bespoke permitting necessities of intensive farming installations.
Sustainability, climate change, carbon footprint, net zero and circular economy are some of the main drivers behind legislation. Planning Acts necessitate environmental assessment in the form of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environmental Statement (ES) or just a Supporting or Information Statement to back up your case.
The Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016 (as amended) has enhanced the coverage of Standard Rules permits, the complexity of securing Bespoke permits and broadened the scope of need for flood assessment and water discharge consents. These all come with the initial hurdle of achieving Duly Made status and then there are the requirements for an Environmental Management System (EMS), technical competence (CoTC) and the measures to not only achieve but demonstrate legal and operating condition compliance in a practical and financially viable way. Local authorities issue and inspect Part B permits. The Environment Agency lead governance of permitted activities initially through Compliance Assessment Reports (CAR) advancing to Enforcement action with or without a Stop Notice.
Numerous companies operate under Exemptions, carrier licences and rely on Regulatory Position Statement’s (RPS). However, many of these Exemptions and RPS’s are being gradually phased out or their applicability restricted and the near future will see licences become part of the permitting system.
Environmental legislation, compliance requirements and the breeding amount of associated guidance on government portals can be complex often daunting for operators whether they encounter it willingly in pursuit of approvals, to identify site liabilities or are thrown into it following a visit or Notice from a statuary body. Correct professional advice gives positive results and ‘peace of mind’.
ACT Environmental can provide you with peace of mind and sound commercial guidance to benefit your bottom line.