Environmental permits

If your installation comes under one of the categories listed below, you may require a permit.

You should contact us to apply for the permit.

It is a legal offence to operate a permitted installation without a permit.

Animal and vegetable processing sectors

• Vegetable matter drying processes
• Maggot breeding
• Sausage casings
• Fish meal processing
• Hide and skin processes
• Wet pet food manufacture
• Dry pet food manufacturing processes
• Animal feed compound
• Mushroom substrate manufacture
• Tobacco processes

Combustion and incineration

• Boilers and furnaces, 20 50 MW Net Rated Thermal Input
• Gas turbines, 20-50 MW Net Thermal Input
• Waste oil and recovered oil burners less than 0.4MW
• Waste oil or recovered oil burners, 0.4 3 MW Net Rated Thermal Input
• Compression ignition engines, 20 50 MW Net Rated Thermal Input
• Combustion of fuel manufactured from, or comprised from, solid waste in appliances
• Crematoria
• Animal carcass incineration

Minerals sector

• Blending, packing, loading, unloading and use of bulk cement
• Manufacture of heavy clay goods and refractory goods
• Lead glass, glass frit and enamel frit manufacturing processes
• Coal, coke, coal product and petroleum coke
• Polishing or etching glass or glass products using hydrofluoric acid
• Exfoliation of vermiculite and expansion of perlite
• Quarry processes
• Plaster processes
• Asbestos processes
• Lime processes
• Roadstone coating processes
• Mineral drying and cooling
• Mobile crushing and screening
• China and ball clay processes including the spray drying of ceramics
• Manufacture of timber and wood-based products
• Di-isocyanate processes

Metals sector

• Furnaces for the extraction of non-ferrous metal from scrap
• Hot dip galvanizing processes
• Electrical, crucible and reverberatory furnaces
• Iron, steel and non-ferrous metal foundry processes
• Hot and cold blast cupolas, and rotary furnaces
• Processes melting and producing aluminium and its alloys
• Processes melting and producing magnesium and its alloys
• Zinc and zinc alloy processes
• Copper and copper alloy processes
• Metal decontamination processes
• Surface treatment of metal processes
• Metal and other thermal spraying processes

Organic chemicals sector

• Fibre re-enforced plastics

Petroleum and powder coating sector

• Storage, unloading and loading petrol at terminals
• Unloading of petrol into sorage at petrol stations
• Manufacture of coating powder
• Powder coating including sherardizing and vitreous enamelling dry
• Bitumen and tar processes

Solvents sector

• Chemical treatment of timber and wood-based product
• Printing and coating of metal packaging
• Textile and fabric coating and finishing
• Coil coating
• Film coating
• Coating in drum manufacturing and reconditioning
• Printing
• Printing of flexible packaging
• Paper coating
• Paint application in vehicle manufacturing
• Leather finishing
• Coating of metal and plastic
• Vegetable oil extraction and fat and oil refining
• Rubber
• Adhesive coating including footwear manufacturing
• Wood coating
• Original coating of road vehicles and trailers
• Respraying of road vehicles
• Coating and recoating of aircraft and aircraft components
• Coating and recoating of rail vehicles
• Formulation and finishing of pharmaceutical products
• Manufacture of coating materials
• Surface cleaning
• Dry cleaning