Environmental permit

Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Permits
  3. Eligibility criteria
  4. Application evaluation process
  5. Tacit consent
  6. Appeals
  7. If you have a complaint

Overview

You must have an environmental permit if you operate a regulated facility in South Tyneside.

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 South Tyneside Council (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 local authority, 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

Permits

Apply for a permit

Apply for an environmental permit part A2

Apply for an environmental permit part B

Apply to change a permit

Apply to change an environmental permit

Annual subsistence charge

GOV.UK: Annual subsistence charge

Apply for a permit by post

Environmental permit part A2 application form

Environmental permit part B application form

Dry cleaner permit

Dry cleaners permit application form

Small waste oil burners permit

Small waste oil burners permit application form

Service stations permit

Service stations permit application form

To make sure applications are processed as efficiently as possible, we recommend that you contact the Environmental Protection team before submitting an application.

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 you will be notified by the regulator and you 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.

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.

Tacit consent

Tacit consent is where an application is treated as accepted if a reply is not recieved within a certain timeframe.

Tacit consent does not apply. It is in the public interest that the council must process your application before it can be granted.

If you have not heard from the council within a reasonable period, please contact us.

You can do this online if you applied through the UK Welcomes service or contact the Environmental Protection team on 0191 424 7925, or at:

Environmental Protection
South Tyneside Council
Level 3
Town Hall & Civic Offices
Westoe Road
South Shields
NE33 2RL

Appeals

Appealing a decision

Please contact South Tyneside Council in the first instance.

An applicant who is refused an environmental permit may appeal to the Secretary of State.

Appeals must be lodged no later than six months from the date of the decision.

Appealing a condition of the license

Please contact South Tyneside Council 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.

Other appeals

Compensation maybe payable in relation to conditions affecting certain interests in land.

If you have a complaint

If you have a complaint, we advise that you contact the trader, preferably in the form a letter (with proof of delivery).

If that has not worked, if you are located in the UK, Consumer Direct will give you advice.

From outside the UK, contact the UK European Consumer Centre.