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Making an LAPPC Application

Introduction
This advice will help you to draw up and submit an application for a permit under the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999. Certain industrial premises are required by law to apply for a permit to operate.

Application Form
You must complete the correct form and supply enough information to allow us to determine the application. Each application should contain the following information: -

Site Details
This includes the address at which the permitted installation is located and the registered office address. It would also be useful to include the address to which invoices should be sent if they are different.

Site Location / Site map
A site plan showing the location of installation and proximity of any residential properties.

Layout / Flow Diagram of Process
This is a useful tool that helps us understand how your installation works.

Description of each Stage of the Process
A detailed description of the installation which will provide useful background information in drawing up the permit.

Emissions
Details of the existing or proposed emissions sources, the amounts and whether they are point or fugitive.

Current or Proposed Abatement Systems
Details of the current or proposed systems in place that are used to control emissions from the installation. Details of the current or proposed abatement systems fitted that control the emission of pollutants such as the name, make, model and level of pollution they emit. You may decide to include copies of manufacturers’ detailed specifications.

Management Systems
Please provide details of any environmental management systems in operation or written instructions / procedures that are in place relating to the control of emissions from the process.

Fees
You will need to pay a one off application fee when your application is made. An application is not “duly made” until the correct fee has been received. You will also need to pay a subsistence fee from the date you receive your permit and each year thereafter. Each year a subsistence fee will need to be paid to us. The fee is set by the Government and changes annually. We will write to you at the beginning of each new financial year advising you of the subsistence fee for that year. You may decide to pay the subsistence fee in full or under certain circumstances you can pay in quarterly instalments.

Application Time Scale
Once we have received your application and fee, a decision will be made within 14 days of receipt if your application is “duly made”. This term refers to whether there is sufficient information for the application to be determined. If we consider that the application is determined “duly made” then a copy of your application will be placed on the public register. If we consider that there is insufficient information then the application will not be “duly made” and further information will be requested.

Commercial Confidentiality
As part of your application, you may consider that certain information is commercially confidential. If you wish this information not to be placed on the public register, then you can apply for the information not to be placed on the public register. If we are satisfied that commercial confidentiality is warranted then the relevant information shall be marked “Confidential” and shall not be placed on the public register. A note shall be placed in the public register file explaining that certain information has been excluded and why. If  we feel that commercial confidentiality does not apply then you will be informed of the decision and information on the right of the applicant to appeal and the appeal provisions. After 21 days the information shall be placed on the public register file.

Advertising
The application for a permit must, EXCEPT in the case of petroleum processes, drycleaners or mobile processes, waste oil burners below 0.4MW input, be advertised in at least one local newspaper within 14 days of being “duly made”. You will be sent the specimen advert, which contains the wording for the advertisement. You must provide us with a copy of the final advertisement or copy of the notice inserted into the local paper.

Consultation
As part of the application process the we must consult with statutory consultees such as the Primary Care Trust, English Nature, The petroleum licensing officer, the Food Standards Agency and the Health and Safety Executive, as appropriate.

Determination of Application
On receipt of the responses from the statutory consultees, we will make a site visit passing on any comments and requesting any additional information as a result of the site visit. The application must be determined within 4 months of being duly made, unless you agree an extended time period. We will then determine the application. If we have determined to issue a permit, then a draft permit will then be drawn up using your information, and the relevant guidance note(s) taking into account any comments from the statutory consultees.

We will send you a draft permit, and give you 28 days to comment on the conditions. The permit is then issued after the 28 days consultation period has finished.

If we decide to refuse the application, then we will tell you in writing, with information on your right to appeal and the appeal provisions.

Page last updated on 24 May 2012