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Licence
Environment Permitting - Part B Generic application
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EUGO
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Link to EUGO site
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Summary
You must have an environmental permit if you operate a regulated facility in England.
A regulated facility includes:
a) installations or mobile plants carrying out listed activities;
b) waste operations;
c) waste mobile plant;
d) mining waste operations;
Listed activities include:
a) energy - burning fuel, gasification, liquification and refining activities;
b) metals - manufacturing and processing metals;
c) minerals - manufacturing lime, cement, ceramics or glass;
d) chemicals - manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals or explosives, storing chemicals in bulk;
e) waste - incinerating waste, operating landfills, recovering waste;
f) solvents - using solvents;
g) other - manufacturing paper, pulp and board, treating timber products, coating, treating textiles and printing, manufacturing new tyres, intensive pig and poultry farming;
To operate certain industrial processes and commercial activities with emissions to air, you need an Environmental Permit from the local authority. This includes activities such as manufacturing activities using organic solvents, incinerators, mobile crushers, waste oil burners, vehicle respraying, cement works, petrol filling stations and dry cleaners.
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 Manchester City Council (the regulator) depending upon the category your business falls within:
a) Part B installations or mobile plants are regulated by Manchester City Council, except waste operations carried out at Part B installations which are regulated by the Environment Agency;
b) Waste operations or waste mobile plant carried on other than at an installation, or Part B mobile plants, are regulated by the Environment Agency;
c) Mining waste operations are regulated by the Environment Agency;
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Register
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Fees
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Validity / Renewals
The Permit will remain in force until it is either surrendered or revoked.
There is an annual subsistence fee charged for the regulation of the process to the prescribed standards.
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Relevant legislation
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.
A summary of the regulation relating to this licence can be found here:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/permitting/
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Link to Guidance Notes
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Attachments to be submitted with your Application
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Online Application Form
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Download Versions - Application form
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Declaration
Upon completion of your application you will be required to confirm that you:
a) have read fully and understood the contents of this form and any supporting information and agree to the terms and/or conditions set out within;
b) understand that by submitting this application, you consent to Manchester City Council passing on the data within this application and its supporting documents to any authority or person that will assist its determination of this application, or as required by law;
c) declare that the information provided is true to the best of your knowledge and belief;
d) understand that if any false information is provided you may be guilty of an offence and liable to prosecution;
e) understand that if the application is authorised you must inform the authority about any changes to circumstances that mean you no longer meet the conditions for the authorisation;
f) understand where a statutory declaration has been provided it may be forwarded to Greater Manchester Police;
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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.
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Processing Timescales
The completed application will be reviewed to ensure that all the necessary information has been included with the application form. The Local authority officer will either seek further information within 14 days or confirm that the application has been ‘duly made’. Once duly made, the application will be processed and a permit issued within 4 months.
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Will Tacit Consent Apply
Tacit Consent does not apply due to Risk of environmental damage.
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Applicant Complaints
Please contact Environmental Protection in the first instance (envhealth@manchester.gov.uk)
An applicant who is refused an environmental permit may appeal to the appropriate authority (Secretary of State). Appeals must be lodged no later than six months from the date of the decision.
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Consumer Complaints
We would always advise that in the event of a complaint the first contact is made with the trader by you preferably in the form a letter (with proof of delivery).
If that has not worked if you are located in the UK contact Consumer Direct
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk.
From outside the UK contact the UK European Consumer Centre
http://www.ukecc.net/
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Other Complaints
Please complete the online complaints form:
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/licensing/complaintsform
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.
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Contact
Manchester City Council
Environmental Protection
Neighbourhood Services
1 Hammerstone Road
Gorton
Manchester
M18 8EQ
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Email
EnvH_CRMTechSupp@manchester.gov.uk
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Telephone
(0044) 161 234 5004
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