Your mining or quarrying business may need a permit, licence or exemption to carry on its activities and control its environmental impacts.
England and Wales
Northern Ireland and Scotland
England and Wales
Your mining or quarrying business may need one or more of the following permits, licences or exemptions.
Environmental permit if your business is a regulated facility, this includes:
Installations and mobile plant if you carry out part A(1), A(2) or B listed activities.
Installations and mobile plant
Waste operations and waste mobile plant if you carry out waste disposal or recovery activities.
Waste operations and waste mobile plant
Mining waste operations if you manage extractive waste.
Mining waste operations
Radioactive substances activities if you keep or use radioactive substances or store or dispose of radioactive waste.
Radioactive substances and waste
Water discharge activities if you discharge sewage or polluting matter into surface water.
Discharges to water and sewer
Groundwater discharge activities if you discharge polluting matter into groundwater.
Discharges to water and sewer
Environmental permitting exemption if you carry out an exempt waste operation, exempt water discharge activity or exempt groundwater activity:
Waste exemptions
Discharges to water and sewer
Hazardous waste premises registration if you produce or remove hazardous waste:
Hazardous/special waste
Waste carrier or broker registration if you transport waste or arrange for someone else’s waste to be disposed of or recovered:
Transporting waste
Trade effluent consent or agreement if you discharge trade effluent into the public sewerage system:
Discharges to water and sewer
Water abstraction or impounding licence if you take or hold water from a watercourse:
Water use and abstraction
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Northern Ireland and Scotland
Your mining or quarrying business may need one or more of the following permits, licences or exemptions.
Pollution prevention and control permit if you operate an installation or mobile plant which carries out:
- part A, B or C activities: Northern Ireland
- part A or B activities: Scotland
Installations and mobile plant
Waste management licence or registered exemption if you carry out certain waste management activities or use waste mobile plant:
Waste activities or waste mobile plant
Waste exemptions
Hazardous/special waste notification if you move hazardous waste:
Hazardous/special waste
Waste carrier or broker registration if you transport waste or arrange for someone else’s waste to be disposed of or recovered:
Transporting waste
Radioactive substances certificate of registration if you keep or use radioactive materials and a radioactive waste authorisation if you store or dispose of radioactive waste:
Radioactive substances and waste
Water discharge consent or groundwater authorisation or authorisation under the Controlled Activities Regulations (Scotland) if you discharge sewage or polluting material into rivers, streams, lochs, loughs, ponds, canals, reservoirs, coastal water, estuaries or groundwater:
Discharges to water and sewer
Trade effluent consent or agreement if you discharge trade effluent into the public sewerage system:
Discharges to water and sewer
Water abstraction or water impounding authorisation or authorisation under the Controlled Activities Regulations (Scotland) if you take or hold water from surface water or groundwater:
Water use and abstraction
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