After a very prolonged period one of my clients has been granted an EPS licence today which will allow the demolition of a building to commence next week. With only to brief period during the year when demolition can place it was certainly down to the wire. In light of the EPS licencing process it is inevitable that hundreds of applications arrive on Natural Englands doorstep at the same time. I certainly get the impression that they are under resourced but also like many other formal processes also wrapped in red tape.