Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC)
Local authorities - Fees and charges
Latest news
- 30 June 2009 - Environment Minister Jim Fitzpatrick announced that small and medium size businesses will benefit from reduced regulatory charges.
The Secretary of State has prescribed schemes in order for local authorities to levy fees and charges from industries which operate processes under two air pollution regimes:
The two regimes were given effect by the Pollution Prevention and Control Act (PPC) and regulations thereunder. They transferred into the new Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) framework on 6 April 2008. Guidance for local authorities and other stakeholders with an interest in the PPC provisions of the EPR can be found in the General Guidance Manual.
These charges are set by the Secretary of State after consultation. Details on each of these - in so far as they currently apply - are set out below.
A “risk method” is applied giving a risk rating (low, medium or high) to each industrial installation dependent upon a variety of factors such as the inherent risk of the activity to the environment, operator performance, and the (reasonable) time taken by the regulating officers to carry out their work. From April 2009 the risk method applies to all LAPPC and LA-IPPC activities.
- Find out more about the risk method
Fees and charges scheme 2009 / 2010
We consulted on the fees and charges scheme for 2009/10 including extending the risk method to activites not covered by the existing methodology. The consultation period ran for 12 weeks until Friday 2 January 2009.
- Consultation for 2009/10 charging scheme including addendum relating to Environment Agency water charges and summary of responses. (PDF 98 KB)
2009 schemes
- Notification letter (including fees and charges summary) to local authorities 2009 (PDF 235 KB)
- fees and charges summary (PDF 90 KB) - Microsoft Word version
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- fees and charges summary (PDF 90 KB) - Microsoft Word version
- Appendix 2 to Notification Letter. (See paragraph 27.21A amended 31 March 2009)
- Part B (LAPPC) Scheme 2009 (PDF 198 KB) (Line III in Table 5 amended 31 March 2009)
- Part A(2) (LA-IPPC) Scheme 2009 (PDF 144 KB)
Reduced Charges due to Mothballing or Reduced Operating Levels
Defra has introduced new arrangements allowing operators to request reduced annual subsistence charges for up to 24 months if they have temporarily mothballed their installation, or are operating below the level at which a permit is required, for a period of at least 12 months, and still want to retain their permit. Once the local authority agrees to the request subsistence fees are reduced by 60% of their risk rated fee for each full month that the qualifying criteria are met. Guidance proformas and revisions to the charging schemes can be found below.
Page last modified: 30 June 2009