Environmental Permitting

The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

The Environmental Protection Section at West Lindsey is responsible for permitting and inspecting all A2 and Part B processes within the district.

These are operations that have the potential to cause air pollution, and include activities, such as, vehicle re-spraying, and unloading of petrol etc. Any person operating a process that requires a permit must submit an application, with a fee, to the local authority. The authority must then issue a permit in accordance with Government guidance. The operator of the prescribed process must comply with the conditions of the permit, and they will be subject to inspection to ensure this is the case.

As of today’s date, West Lindsey District Council has not carried out any legal enforcement (by way of service of enforcement notices) or prosecutions at any of these processes.

Further information, including Fees and Charges, is available on GOV.UK: Local authority environmental permits.

Charging for Environmental Information Regulation requests

Under The Environmental Information Regulations 2004, Part 2 Regulation 8(1) for certain requests we are allowed to request that a minimum charge of £83.00* is paid for providing the information requested.  Advance payment is required and the information will be provided no later than 20 days after payment.

*Charge amount valid from 01 April 2024 until 31 March 2025

Each request will be assessed to see if the information requested reaches the chargeable threshold which will be based upon the time taken to locate, retrieve, extract and summarise the information required.  This charge also covers any disbursement costs.

If after 60 days no payment is received the request will closed.

Public register

You can view the list of permits by downloading the following ODS:

• A2 and Schedule B permits [ODS / 19 KB]

If you wish to view any of the following documents relating to the above permits,  you may do so free of charge at our offices or a copy can be provided, on request.

• application documents
• permits
• consultation responses
• monitoring results
• enforcement details

Certain information may be withheld on grounds of commercial confidentiality or national security. In these cases, we must place a Notice on the Register in place of the sensitive information.

Part A(2) installations are larger industrial processes that are regulated by the Environmental Protection Service for emissions to air, water and land. Their permits also contain controls over energy use, waste production, raw materials use, and noise.