The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Deposit of agricultural waste consisting of plant tissue under a Plant Health notice (D4) E+W

4.—(1) The deposit of agricultural waste that is relevant waste.

(2) The table specifying relevant waste for the purposes of this paragraph is set out below.

Codes	Waste types
020103	Plant tissue waste

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are that—

(a) the deposit is required under a Plant Health notice,

(b) where waste is deposited into a pile, the pile—

(i) does not exceed 250 tonnes, and

(ii) is not immediately adjacent to another pile of the same type of waste,

(c) at the time the deposit is made—

(i) the land has not been frozen for 12 or more hours in the preceding 24 hours;

(ii) the land is not waterlogged, frozen or snow-covered, and

(d) no waste is deposited within—

(i) 10 metres of any watercourse;

(ii) 50 metres of any spring, well or borehole.