National Compliance Assessment Database: UK Waste Site Activities, 2014-2024

Environment Agency data from 2014 to 2024 summarizes compliance assessment activities at permitted waste operations and installations. The National Compliance Assessment Database (NCAD) provides a high-level summary of assessment types. Information excludes sites where Commercial Confidentiality or National Security applies.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in regulatory compliance activities based on annual data from 2014 to 2024
• Compare assessment types across different waste operations and installations based on the high-level summary
• Identify sectors or sites subject to compliance oversight, excluding confidential or national security cases

Strengths

• Data covers a 10-year period from 2014 to 2024
• Source is the authoritative Environment Agency
• Explicitly excludes confidential and national security sites for transparency

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Time Range

2014 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 13:10:32.064561; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom