Pollution Prevention and Control permitting

You must have an environmental permit if you operate a regulated facility in England or Wales. You can be fined or sent to prison if you operate a regulated facility without an environmental permit.

Regulated facilities include:

• Installations or mobile plant which carry out listed activities.
• Waste operations.
• Mining waste operations.
• Radioactive substances activity.
• Water discharge activity.
• Groundwater activity.

An installation is a stationary technical unit used for listed activities, such as a self-contained building, permanent structure or fixed plant. Mobile plant is plant that can be moved and is used for listed activities.