How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
The Environment Agency regulates businesses and individuals who want to carry out activities that could pollute or negatively affect the environment. They issue licenses, permits, registrations and exemptions. These give people permission to carry out their activity, provided they follow certain rules.
The Environment Agency publishes information about these permissions on public registers so anyone can see it.
Check the public registers to find information about environmental permits for:
Some activities are exempt from needing an environmental permit, but the operator must register that they are carrying out that activity. There are strict rules and conditions they must follow to be able to register an exemption.
Check the public register for registered exemptions for these activities:
Environment Agency officers use CAR forms to assess compliance with environmental permits.
Check the public register for CAR forms for:
Check the public register to find registered waste carriers, brokers and dealers.
Check the public register to find a licensed scrap metal dealer.
The enforcement action register has information on formal cautions and prosecutions the Environment Agency has taken against companies.
For information on enforcement actions against individuals, contact the Environment Agency’s National Customer Contact Centre. The information it can release about individuals may be affected by data protection law and other relevant legal considerations.
Enforcement action information covers from 2000 to the present.
The Environment Agency holds public register information collected under the WEEE regulations.
Check the WEEE public registers to find information about:
Check the public registers for extended producer responsibility for packaging for data on:
Check the National Packaging Waste Database for public registers of:
The Environment Agency manages a register of large raised reservoirs.
You can email [email protected] to request a copy of this information.
Once you have found the public register information you are interested in, you can ask the Environment Agency to send you a copy of the relevant permit or licence.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-the-public-register-for-environmental-information