You must have an environmental permit if you operate a regulated
facility in the City of London.
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 your local
authority (the regulator) 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 the City of London, except waste operations carried
out at Part B installations which are regulated by the Environment
Agency
- waste operations or waste mobile plant carried on 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
Eligibility criteria
- Applications must be made on the form provided by the
regulator, or online and must include specified information which
will vary depending on the operation.
- A fee may be payable.
- If further information is required the applicant will be
notified by the regulator and they 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the application will be deemed to be withdrawn.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
View a summary of the regulation relating to this
licence
Application evaluation process
- The regulator 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.
- The regulator may inform the public of the application and must
consider any representations.
- The application must be from the operator of the regulated
facility and the regulator must be satisfied that they must operate
the facility in accordance with the environmental permit.
Will tacit consent apply?
- Yes. This means that you will be able to act as though your
application is granted if you have not heard from the local
authority by the end of the target completion period
- No. It is in the public interest that the authority must
process your application before it can be granted. If you have not
heard from the local authority within a reasonable period, please
contact it. You can do this
online if you applied through the UK Welcomes service or use
the contact details below.
Apply online
Failed application redress
Please contact the City of London 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 and in Wales are the Welsh Ministers.
Appeals must be lodged no later than six months from the date of
the decision.
Licence holder redress
Please contact the City of London 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 appropriate authority.
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.
Other redress
Compensation maybe payable in relation to conditions affecting
certain interests in land.
Trade associations