Environmental permits

The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 enables local authorities to control pollution from certain types of industry (such as coal handlers, bulk cement & petrol filling stations) through applying for a permit.

These permits consist of specific conditions that the operators have to adhere to. Inspections are carried out at the installations to ensure that the permit conditions are not in breach. Processes are divided into 3 categories.

Processes

These concern facilities that are concerned with processes such as:

Refineries
Manufacturing sites
factories
process industries

It also includes certain waste activities:

Disposing of waste to landfill
Hazardous waste treatment
Waste incineration

These are regulated by the Environment Agency

A2 processes include anything that have the potential to cause harm to air, land or water.

They include:

refining gas
metal works, eg producing pig iron or steel, casting ferrous metal, operating forge hammers or applying fused metal coatings
melting non-ferrous metals
surface treating metals and plastic materials
grinding cement clinker or metallurgical slag
glass manufacturing
cellulose fibre reinforced calcium silicate board manufacturing
ceramic product manufacturing, including roof tiles and bricks
non-hazardous or animal waste incineration
manufacturing wood based boards, eg plywood
new tyre manufacturing
disposing of or recycling animal carcasses or waste

These are regulated by North East Lincolnshire Council to ensure that it is complying with the conditions of the environmental permit.

These are processes that will cause emissions to the air and are also regulated by North East Lincolnshire Council

Application under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (as amended)

HPS Plant Hire Ltd has applied to North East Lincolnshire Council for a variation to permit conditions regarding a Section 3.5 part B crushing and screening brick tile and concrete in mobile plant process.

The application, reference VAR/App/EP/20210002 is for an application to include an additional mobile crushing plant at the Operator address: HPS Plant Hire Ltd, Railway Street, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. DN32 7BN

The application has been placed on the public register, the link to the public register can be found at the bottom of this page. Any written comments on the application should be made to Environmental Protection, North East Lincolnshire Council, Doughty Road Depot, Doughty Road, Grimsby, DN32 0LL or email [email protected].

Any written comments will be placed on the public register unless they include a statement requesting that this is not done. If there is such a request the register itself will just include a note that representations have been made which are not on the register because of such a request.

Dated: Wednesday 20^th September 2023

Application under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (as amended)

Associated British Ports has applied to North East Lincolnshire Council for a variation to permit conditions relating to Permit reference EP/20220002 a Section 3.5 part B coal, coke, coal product and petroleum cokeprocess.

The application, reference VAR/App/EP/20220002 is for a substantial variation to include the activity loading, unloading and storage of Pulverised Fuel Ash and the screening of bottom fuel ash at the site location: Associated British Ports, Pad 4, Southern Way, Immingham Dock, Immingham, North East Lincolnshire. DN40 2NY

Dated: Tuesday 12 September 2023