England Environmental Permits - EA Public Registers

Eleven Environment Agency public registers for England in one dataset: 791,533 rows as of 20 October 2026, covering waste carriers, waste and water permits, exemptions, enforcement actions, industrial installations, scrap metal dealers, end-of-life vehicle sites and radioactive substance permits.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the records you receive - the whole corpus stays searchable, you are never billed for the scan behind it.

What is in it

register	rows	what it is
waste-carriers-brokers	431,490	registered waste carriers, brokers and dealers - includes the Companies House number
waste-exemptions	118,456	registered waste exemptions (including farm exemptions)
water-discharges	115,264	discharge permits to water and groundwater
water-discharge-exemptions	85,386	discharge exemptions
flood-risk-exemptions	12,696	flood-risk activity exemptions
waste-operations	9,591	waste management permits
enforcement-action	8,228	EA enforcement notices and court cases
industrial-installations	5,175	industrial permits
scrap-metal-dealers	2,996	scrap metal dealer licences
end-of-life-vehicles	1,512	authorised treatment facilities
radioactive-substance	739	radioactive substance permits

What you get per row

field	meaning
register	which of the eleven registers the row came from
permitId	permit, registration, licence or action number
holderName, holderType	permit holder and its type (company, partnership, charity, public body, authority, organisation, sole trader or individual (name withheld))
companyNumber	Companies House number - waste carriers, for a direct join to uk-companies-house
registrationType, registrationTier, applicantType	carrier/broker/dealer classification
siteName, siteType, activityType, status	what the permit covers
address, siteAddress, postcode, postcodeArea	operator and site addresses
localAuthority, region, waterManagementArea	administrative geography
easting, northing, gridReference	site coordinates
issuedDate, startDate, expiryDate, renewalDate, variationDate, transferDate, effectiveDate, surrenderedDate, revokedDate	the permit's lifecycle dates
actionDate, actionType, legislation, agencyFunction	enforcement detail
documentUrl	the published permit document (industrial installations)
refreshedDate, sourceUrl	snapshot date and register URL

Search it

• Holder name - name="Veolia" (substring, case-insensitive).
• Company number - companyNumber="04751916" - an exact Companies House join.
• Permit number - permitId="CBDU128084" (prefix).
• Postcode - postcode="RG8" (prefix; spaces are ignored).
• Council - localAuthority="Leicester" (exact).
• Register - register="enforcement-action".
• Holder type - holderType="company", "partnership", "sole trader".
• Enforcement type - actionType="Enforcement Notice", "Court Case".
• Activity - activityType="Broker" (substring).

Example inputs

One company's waste-carrier registrations

{ "name": "Veolia", "register": "waste-carriers-brokers", "maxResults": 50 }

By Companies House number

{ "companyNumber": "04751916" }

Enforcement actions against a company

{ "register": "enforcement-action", "name": "YORK RECYCLING",
  "maxResults": 25 }

What is permitted in one postcode area

{ "postcode": "LE3", "maxResults": 50 }

Scrap metal licences in one council

{ "register": "scrap-metal-dealers", "localAuthority": "Leicester" }

Counts by register - mode=aggregate.

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "register" }

Counts of holders by type

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "holderType" }

Counts by council - groupBy=registrationType, postcodeArea or actionType also available.

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "localAuthority",
  "register": "waste-carriers-brokers" }

Example output

{
 "register": "waste-carriers-brokers",
 "permitId": "CBDU128084",
 "holderName": "PAVERPRINT DRIVEWAYS & PATIOS LIMITED",
 "holderType": "company",
 "companyNumber": "04751916",
 "registrationType": "Carrier Dealer",
 "registrationTier": "Upper",
 "applicantType": "Company",
 "address": "HAWTHORN HOUSE, CHECKENDON, READING, RG8 0SU, United Kingdom",
 "postcode": "RG8 0SU",
 "postcodeArea": "RG",
 "issuedDate": "2025-08-06",
 "expiryDate": "2028-09-02",
 "refreshedDate": "2026-10-20",
 "sourceUrl": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/public-register/downloads/waste-carriers-brokers"
}

Owner maintenance

mode=warm rebuilds all eleven shards from the EA registers and writes them to this actor's private key-value store, then refreshes the public summary. It is a maintenance path for the owner, not a user query: a warm run takes about three minutes and returns one summary row. The default (empty) run never triggers it.

{ "mode": "warm" }

Notes on the data, from the source

• Row limit per run. maxResults is capped at 5,000 records per register; narrow the filters rather than requesting a whole register in one run.
• Individual names are withheld. The registers include sole traders and individual permit holders. Their names are not published by this actor (holderName is empty and holderType says sole trader or individual (name withheld)); the permit number, site address, dates and status remain. Companies, partnerships, charities and public bodies keep their names. Where one field lists several holders separated by |, only the organisation components are kept. Where the register declares no holder type and the name has no organisation form, the name is withheld.
• England coverage. The Environment Agency regulates England. Natural Resources Wales, SEPA (Scotland) and NIEA (Northern Ireland) publish separate registers and are not included.
• Waste carriers carry a Companies House number, which makes a direct, identifier-based join to uk-companies-house possible without name matching.
• Snapshots, not a change feed. The EA publishes current registers; the owner-warm refreshes them as a snapshot. Expired and revoked permits that the register still lists are included with their dates.
• Licence. Environment Agency Conditional Licence - commercial reuse is permitted with attribution. This is an independent data service, not an official Environment Agency service.

Data source: environment.data.gov.uk/public-register (Environment Agency).