Pigs and poultry intensive farming: environmental permits
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How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Get advice from the Environment Agency
- Prepare your intensive farming permit application
- Request an ammonia screening assessment
- Produce a written management system
- Confirm your ability as an operator
- Do an environmental risk assessment
- Plan to avoid and control emissions to air, water and land
- Plan to meet technical standards
- Apply for your intensive farming permit
- Fees and charges
- Consultations on permit applications
- Keeping sensitive information confidential
- After you apply
- Decisions about your permit
- Appeal a decision
- How to comply with your permit
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Pigs and poultry intensive farming: environmental permits’ (updated 1 May 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026