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What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
Your local council can introduce extra controls on emissions if there are…
The darker the smoke, the more polluting it tends to be. Smoke darker than…
You need a permit for most generators, furnaces and boilers. Get a permit…
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Residential Property Tribunal Decision of Judge N Hawkes and Mr J Naylor on 14 September 2022
Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
In smoke control areas you can only use certain types of fuel or exempt appliances - find out if you live in one and what you can burn
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Southern Region, Judge Tildesley OBE and Mrs A Clist MRICS on 30 June 2023
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
Midlands Region, Mr GS Freckelton FRICS and Mr N WInt FRICS on 19 September 2019
Southern Region, Mr D Banfield FRICS on 27 January 2021
BAT for diesel engines on an installation that are classed as new medium combustion plant, operating up to 500 hours a year that are exempt from emission limit values (ELVs).
Southern Region on 21 October 2021, Judge Banfield paper determination.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Residential Property Tribunal Decision of Judge Dutton and Mrs S Redmond BSc (Econ) MRICS on Date 18 May 2021
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Residential Property Tribunal Decision of Judge Professor Abbey and Mr Geddes on 12 August 2019
Residential Property Tribunal Decision of Judge Robert Latham and Duncan Jagger FRICS on Date 29 December 2021
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