{"id":98,"date":"2017-05-30T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/bespoke-flood-risk-activity-permit-application-barnstaple\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T14:34:00","slug":"bespoke-flood-risk-activity-permit-application-barnstaple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/bespoke-flood-risk-activity-permit-application-barnstaple\/","title":{"rendered":"Bespoke Flood Risk Activity Permit Application &#8211; Barnstaple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Bespoke Flood Risk Activity Permit Application &#8211; Barnstaple<\/h2>\n<p>Acting upon instruction from a client in Barnstaple, Devon, Southwest Environmental Limited have submitted a bespoke permit application for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/flood-risk-activities-environmental-permits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flood risk activity permit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was for a lowering of ground level within 9 meters of a main river. It was thought strange that lower of ground adjacent to a river require a permit, owing to likley positive flood storage benefits, but the Environment Agency are concerned with the disruption of the channel, and the potential for pollution to enter the river.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/further%20info\/flood_risk\/flood_risk_photos\/flood_risk_photo_21.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/further%20info\/flood_risk\/flood_risk_photos\/flood_risk_photo_21.JPG\" data-original-height=\"533\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>To that end the application forms etc. were filed and a number of supporting documents such as plannings and environmental management systems have been submitted, so the Environment agency can determine the application for this flood risk activity permit.<\/p>\n<p>Flood risk activity permits are a relatively recent addition to the Environmental permitting regime, however they have been in forced under older regulatory regimes prior to being migrated to the EPR regs.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of standard flood risk activity permits available for an obscure set of activities, so for most operation a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/further%20info\/permitting\/flood_risk_permits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bespoke flood risk activity permit<\/a> will be required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116637215835538637770\/about?gl=uk&amp;hl=en\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #33aaff; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Consultants London<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bespoke Flood Risk Activity Permit Application &#8211; Barnstaple Acting upon instruction from a client in Barnstaple, Devon, Southwest Environmental Limited have submitted a bespoke permit application for a flood risk activity permit. The proposal was for a lowering of ground level within 9 meters of a main river. It was thought strange that lower of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-permit-application","category-flood-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}