Licence Summary
You must have an environmental permit if you operate a regulated
facility in England or Wales. A fee is payable for permissions
granted.
A regulated facility includes:
- installations or mobile plants carrying out listed
activities
- waste operations
- waste mobile plant
- mining waste operations
Listed activities include:
- energy - burning fuel, gasification, liquification and refining
activities
- metals - manufacturing and processing metals
- minerals - manufacturing lime, cement, ceramics or glass
- chemicals - manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals or
explosives
- storing chemicals in bulk
- waste - incinerating waste, operating landfills, recovering
waste
- solvents - using solvents
- other - manufacturing paper, pulp and board, treating timber
products,
coating, treating textiles and printing, manufacturing new tyres,
intensive pig and poultry farming
Listed activities are divided into three categories: Part A(1),
Part A(2) and Part B.
Part A permits control activities with a range of environmental
impacts,
including:
- emissions to air, land and water
- energy efficiency
- waste reduction
- raw materials consumption
- noise, vibration and heat
- accident prevention
Part B permits control activities which cause emissions to
air.
The permit your business requires depends on the specific
processes involved and resulting emissions.
Permits are available from the Environment Agency or us (the
regulators) depending upon the category your business falls
within:
- Part A(1) installations or mobile plants are regulated by the
Environment Agency
- Part A(2) and Part B installations or mobile plants are
regulated by us, except waste operations carried out at Part B
installations which are regulated by the Environment Agency
- waste operations or waste mobile plant carried on at other than
at an installation, or by Part A or Part B mobile plants, are
regulated by the Environment Agency
- mining waste operations are regulated by the Environment
Agency
Further information on environmental permits can be obtained
from the
Environment Agency Local Authority Unit web page.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications must be made on the form provided by us, or online
and must include specified information which will vary depending on
the operation.
If further information is required we will notify the applicant
who must provide this information or the application will be deemed
to be withdrawn.
The application must be from the operator of the regulated
facility.
For waste operations no licence will be granted unless any
required planning permission had first been granted.
Regulation Summary
The main legislation covering this permission is the
Environmental
Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010.
Application Evaluation Process
We will pay regard to the protection of the environment taken as
a whole by, in particular, preventing or, where that is not
practicable, reducing emissions into the air, water and land.
We may inform the public of the application and must consider
any representations.
The application must be from the operator of the regulated
facility and we must be satisfied that they must operate the
facility in accordance with the environmental permit.
Will Tacit Consent Apply?
No. It is in the public interest that we must process your
application before it can be granted. If you have not heard from us
within 94 Days, please contact us as detailed below.
Apply online
Please contact your us the first instance.
Download forms and other documents
If you wish to complete an application by hand and return it to
us by post, you can download the following application forms:
Failed Application Redress
Please contact us in the first instance.
An applicant who is refused an environmental permit may appeal
to the appropriate authority. In England the appropriate authority
is the Secretary of State. Appeals must be lodged no later than six
months from the date of the decision.
Licence Holder Redress
Please contact us in the first instance.
If an application to vary, transfer or surrender an
environmental permit has been refused or if the applicant objects
to conditions imposed on the environmental permit they may appeal
to the Secretary of State.
Appeals must be lodged in relation to a regulator initiated
variation, a suspension notice or an enforcement notice, not later
than two months from the date of the variation or notice and in any
other case not later than six months from the date of the
decision.
Consumer Complaint
We would always advise that in the event of a complaint he first
contact is made with the environmental permit holder by you -
preferably in the form a letter (with proof of delivery). If that
has not worked, contact the Environmental Protection Team.
Public Registers
Please contact the Environmental Protection Team for more
information on the registers we hold.
Other Redress
Compensation maybe payable in relation to conditions affecting
certain interests in land.
Trade Associations
Contact Details
For more information please contact the
Environmental
Protection Team.
