Does your Business need an Environmental Permit?
If your business carries out any of the activities listed below,
you probably need an environmental permit under the Environmental
Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (EPR). These types
of activities are those that can cause air pollution (for example
smoke, dust or solvent fumes) or affect the environment (water or
land contamination). Please note that this list of activities
is a cut-down version of the rather complicated full list of
activities in the Regulations. Please contact us to double-check whether you
need a permit or not.
These are some of the most common businesses needing an
Environmental Permit:
- Petrol stations
- Dry cleaners
- Crushing and screening of concrete, bricks and tiles
- Roadstone coating processes
- Loading, unloading and use of bulk cement (e.g. a batching
plant)
- Using solvents (e.g. for surface cleaning, or vehicle
respraying)
- Foundries (furnaces)
Other businesses that need an Environmental Permit
Animal and vegetable processing sectors
- Vegetable matter drying processes
- Maggot breeding
- Sausage casings
- Fish meal processing
- Wet pet food manufacture
- 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/comprised of solid
waste
- Crematoria
- Animal carcase incineration