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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010/schedule-3/part-1/chapter-2/crossheading-descriptions-and-specific-conditions/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111491423",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010",
  "path": "schedule/3/part/1/chapter/2/crossheading/descriptions-and-specific-conditions/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Spreading waste on non-agricultural land to confer benefit (U11)",
  "text": "(1) The spreading of relevant waste on land that is not agricultural land for the purposes of providing, maintaining or improving the soil’s ability to provide a growing medium by adding nutrients, lime or biomass.\n(2) The table specifying relevant waste for the purposes of this paragraph and the quantity and storage limits referred to in sub-paragraph (3) is set out below.\nCodes\nWaste types\nQuantity limit (over 12 months)\nStorage limit (at any one time)\nAdditional specific conditions\n010102, 010408, 170504\nChalk only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n200 tonnes\nA\n020106\nFarmyard and horse manure only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n200 tonnes\nA\n020202\nShellfish shells from which the soft tissue or flesh has been removed only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n200 tonnes\nA\n020399, 020401\nSoil from cleaning and washing fruit and vegetables only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n200 tonnes\nA\n100101\nAsh from wood chip boilers produced pursuant to an operation described in paragraph U4 only\n1 tonne per hectare\n10 tonnes\nA\n170506\nDredging spoil (other than those mentioned in 170505) generated from the creation or maintenance of habitats, ditches or ponds within parks, gardens, fields and forests only\n150 tonnes per hectare\n1,250 tonnes\nB\n020199\nSpent compost from the growing of mushrooms only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n500 tonnes\nA\n190599\nCompost produced pursuant to a treatment described in paragraph T23 or T26 only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n500 tonnes\nA\n190604\nDigestate produced pursuant to a treatment described in paragraph T24 or T25 only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n200 tonnes\nA\n190812\nWaste consisting of biobed or biofilter material produced pursuant to a treatment described in paragraph T32 only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n200 tonnes\nA, C\n200108\nCoffee grounds only\n50 tonnes per hectare\n200 tonnes\nA\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are that—\n(a) the total quantity of waste spread does not exceed the limit specified in the third column of the table in sub-paragraph (2) over any 12-month period;\n(b) the total quantity of waste stored at any one time does not exceed the limit specified in the fourth column of the table;\n(c) subject to additional specific condition C in sub-paragraph (f), where it applies, no waste is stored for longer than 12 months prior to spreading;\n(d) the waste is stored in a secure location prior to spreading;\n(e) at the time the spreading begins—\n(i) the land has not been frozen for 12 hours or more in the preceding 24 hours,\n(ii) the land is not waterlogged, frozen or snow-covered; and\n(f) the operation complies with such of the following additional specific conditions as are specified in the fifth column of the table—\nA\nthe location of any waste which is stored or land which is spread is at least 10 metres from a watercourse and 50 metres from a spring, well or borehole,\nB\nthe waste is spread adjacent to the place from which it was dredged,\nC\nthe waste is stored for at least 12 months prior to spreading.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111491423/schedule/3/part/1/chapter/2/crossheading/descriptions-and-specific-conditions/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:48.989463+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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