B66 2NW, Dunn Bros Recycling Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/GB3106HM/V002
Published 27 February 2026
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Details of the application
The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from Dunn Bros Recycling Limited.
Application number
EPR/GB3106HM/V002
Regulated facility type
The variation to change an existing waste operation standard rules permit to become an installation. The main installation activity is a S5.4A(1)(b)(iv) activity - recovery or a mix of recovery and disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day involving treatment in shredders of metal waste, including waste electrical and electronic equipment and end-of-life vehicles and their components. in addition to the above, the proposed is also to retain storage and transfer of hazardous waste (less than 50 tonnes at any one time) as a waste operation activity. The change to the waste operation activity is limited to the addition of 2 new waste codes to the activity. There are no point source emissions to air. The site currently has one point source emission to sewer located at the front entrance to the outside yard of the site (S1). Only clean surface water run-off discharges to sewer during normal operations.
Regulated facility address
Steel Bright Road Metal Recycling Facility
Steel Bright Road
Birmingham
B66 2NW
The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:
- the installation
- the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
- the conditions of its site
- the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
- the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
- and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered
How to view and comment on the application
If you have any comments on the application send these by 7 April 2026.
You can comment:
Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space
Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk
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