Pollution Prevention & Control: Industrial Processes Potentially Requiring Regulation

 

If you operate, or plan to set up a business activity within Havant Borough falling within the categories listed below, you should check the regulations, or contact the pollution team staff to see if you will require a permit.

 

  • Energy Industries
            
  • Combustion activities
  • Gasification, liquefaction & refining activities
  • Production & Processing of Metals 
 
  • Ferrous metals
  • Non-ferrous metals
  • Surface treating metals & plastics
  • Mineral Industries 
 
  • Production of cement & lime
  • Activities involving asbestos
  • Manufacturing glass & glass fibre
  • Production of other mineral fibres / other mineral activities
  • Ceramic production
  • Chemical Industries 
 
  • Organic chemical industries
  • Inorganic chemical industries
  • Chemical fertiliser production
  • Plant health products & biocides
  • Pharmaceuticals production
  • Explosives production
  • Manufacturing involving carbon disulphide or ammonia
  • Bulk storage of chemicals
  • Waste Management 
 
  • Disposal of waste by incineration
  • Disposal of waste by landfill
  • Disposal of waste other than by incineration or landfill
  • Waste recovery activities
  • Production of fuel form waste
  • Other Activities 
 
  • Paper, pulp & board manufacturing activities
  • Carbon activities
  • Tar & bitumen activities
  • Coating activities, printing & textile treatment
  • Manufacture of dyestuffs, printing ink & coating materials
  • Timber activities
  • Activities involving rubber
  • Treatment of animal & vegetable matter and food industries
  • Intensive farming
  • Solvent Emissions Directive: Any activity using significant quantities of organic solvents, including Dry Cleaners. 

 

Not all processes (even if they fall within the categories above) will require a permit – this is largely dependent upon the scale and / or capacity of the activity.  Full details of the processes prescribed under the PPC regulations 2000 can be found on the Office of Public Sector Information website >> (links to external site)

 

To find out more about the EPA and PPC please visit the industrial air pollution pages of the Defra Website >>.

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Havant Borough Council, Civic Centre Road, Havant, Hampshire PO9 2AX