Environmental permit requirements

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

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, liquefaction 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.

For more information, see pollution prevention and control.

View details of fees and how to apply for an environmental permit.