Notice

BS49 4QN, Smart Systems Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/KP3434FE/V003

Published 16 June 2023

This notice was withdrawn on 4 August 2023

The consultation period for this application has ended. You can view current licences on the Public Registers.

Applies to England

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 Smart Systems Limited.

Application number

EPR/KP3434FE/V003

Regulated facility type

Current listed activities: S2.3 Part A(1)(a) [S2.3 Surface treating metals and plastic materials, Part A(1) (a) Unless falling within Part A(2) of this Section, surface treating metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the aggregated volume of the treatment vats is more than 30m3]; and

S6.4 Part B (a)(i) [S6.4 Coating activities, printing and textile treatments, Part B (a) Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section or Part A(2)(c) of Section 2.1, any process (other than for the re-painting or re-spraying of, or of parts of, aircraft or road or railway vehicles) for applying to a substrate, or drying or curing after such application, printing ink or paint or any other coating material as, or in the course of, a manufacturing activity, where the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of— (i) 20 or more tonnes of printing ink, paint or other coating material which is applied in solid form]

Proposed additional activity: S5.4 Part A(1)(a)(ii) [S5.4 Disposal, recovery or a mix of disposal and recovery of non-hazardous waste Part A(1) (a) Disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day involving one or more of the following activities, and excluding activities covered by Council Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste-water treatment(a)— (i) biological treatment; (ii) physico-chemical treatment; (iii) pre-treatment waste for incineration or co-incineration; (iv) treatment of slags and ashes; (v) treatment in shredders of metal waste, including waste electrical and electronic equipment and end-of-life vehicles and their components.]

Regulated facility address

Smart Systems Limited
Arnolds Way
Yatton
North Somerset
BS49 4QN

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 14 July 2023.

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