Southwest Environmental Limited

Part B Permits

Southwest Environmental Limited can Apply on you behalf for any type of Part B Environmental Permit Nationwide. Unlike an Environmental Permit for Waste or Installations, a Part B Permit is generally made to the Local Authority rather than the Environment Agency.

Part B Permits cover a variety of Activities, such are where things are burnt or where chemicals are used. The most common example might be Dry Cleaners and Waste Oil Burners that are used in Garages.

As with any Environmental permit the aim to to assess the risk of the operation on those surrounding you. This includes receptors such as humans, water course, and wildlife.

Part B Permit Applications

An application will consist of filling out forms, which one would expect but also quantitative risk assessment and monitoring programs for some Activities.

You can read about an example by clicking the below link:

Part B Permit Application - Wood Waste Burner - Somerset

We can also carry out compliance checking for Local Authorities. This might including additional support frameworks to bring failing permits up to standard. Which is normally easily done if the correct support is given. Given support there is no reason why a potentially "dirty" activity can be carried out without creating any meaning full pollution or negative impacts.

There are a number of Process Guidance Notes that are available which generally give emissions limits. If these prove to be breached then it is sometimes the case that the Local Authority will accept an H1 Risk Assessment in place of the standard limits. The below notes are very helpful to anyone considering Part B Activity. And you should certainly read the relevant one, before buying any equipment. Emissions or sizes of the equipment will have to be considered if you want to stay with Part B Emmsions Requirements.

Process Guidance Notes

Animal and Vegetable

Maggot breeding: process guidance note 6/05

Sausage casing and offal production: process guidance note 6/12

Fish meal and fish oil production: process guidance note 6/19

Animal hide and skin: process guidance note 6/21

Animal feed compound: process guidance note 6/26

Vegetable matter drying processes: process guidance note 6/27

 Mushroom substrate manufacturing: process guidance note 6/30

Tobacco processes: process guidance note 6/36

Combustion

Boilers and furnaces 20 to 50MW thermal input: process guidance note 1/03

Gas turbines 20 to 50mw thermal input: process guidance note 1/04

 Compression ignition engines, 20 to 50 MW net rated thermal input: process guidance note 1/05

Combustion of waste wood: process guidance note 1/12

Crematoria: process guidance note 5/2

Animal carcase incineration: process guidance note 5/03

Mineral Sector

Cement: process guidance note 3/01

 Manufacture of heavy clay goods and refractory goods: process guidance note 3/02

 Lead glass, glass frit and enamel frit: process guidance note 3/04

Coal, coke, coal product and petroleum coke: process guidance note 3/05

Polishing or etching glass: process guidance note 3/6

Exfoliation of vermiculite and expansion of perlite: process guidance note 3/07

Quarry processes: process guidance note 3/08

Plaster processes: process guidance note 3/12

Lime processes: process guidance note 3/14

Mobile crushing and screening: process guidance note 3/16

China and ball clay processes: process guidance note 3/17

 Mineral drying and cooling: process guidance note 3/18

Working of timber and manufacture of wood-based products: process guidance note 6/02 

Di-isocyanate processes: process guidance note 6/29

Metals

Extraction of non-ferrous metal from scrap: process guidance note 2/01

 Extraction of non-ferrous metal from scrap: process guidance note 2/01

Hot dip galvanizing processes: process guidance note 2/02

Electrical furnaces: process guidance note 2/03

Cold blast cupolas: process guidance note 2/05

Melting aluminium and its alloys: process guidance note 2/16

Zinc and zinc alloy: process guidance note 2/07

Copper and copper alloy installations: process guidance note 2/08

Metal decontamination installations: process guidance note 2/09

Melting magnesium and its alloys: process guidance note 2/10

Surface treatment of metals: process guidance note 4/01

Metal powder and other thermal spraying: process guidance note 6/35

Organics

Polymerisation of pre-formulated resins or gel coats: process guidance note 4/12

Petroleum

Storage, unloading and loading petrol at terminals: process guidance note 1/13

 Unloading petrol into storage at petrol stations: process guidance note 1/14

Manufacture coating powder: process guidance note 6/09

Powder coating: process guidance note 6/31 

Bitumen: process guidance note 6/42

Solvents

Timber chemical treatment: process guidance note 6/03

Printing and coating metal packaging: process guidance note 6/07

Textile and fabric coating and finishing: process guidance note 6/08

Coil coating: process guidance note 6/13

Film coating: process guidance note 6/14

 Coating in drum manufacturing and reconditioning: process guidance note 6/15

Printing: process guidance note 6/16

Printing of flexible packaging: process guidance note 6/17

Paint application in vehicle manufacturing: process guidance note 6/20

Leather finishing: process guidance note 6/22

 Coating of metal and plastic: process guidance note 6/23

Vegetable oil extraction and fat and oil refining: process guidance note 6/25

 Rubber: process guidance note 6/28

Adhesive coating including footwear manufacturing: process guidance note 6/32

Wood coating: process guidance note 6/33 

Respraying of road vehicles: process guidance note 6/34

Coating and recoating of aircraft and aircraft components: process guidance note 6/40

Coating and recoating of rail vehicles: process guidance note 6/41

Formulation and finishing of pharmaceutical products: process guidance note 6/43

Manufacture of coating materials: process guidance note 6/44

Surface cleaning: process guidance note 6/45

Dry cleaning: process guidance note 6/46

Original coating of road vehicles and trailers: process gu