Defra

Guidance

Defra guidance on the Local Authority Pollution Control (LAPC) regime consists of:

  • a short, simple 3-page guide to LAPC
  • a statutory General Guidance Manual which sets out the procedures and policy
  • statutory process guidance (PG) notes which set out the Secretary of State’s view on what constitutes Best Available Techniques for each of the main sectors regulated to control their air emissions (so-called “Part B” activities)
  • statutory sector guidance (SG) notes which do the same for the sectors regulated under integrated pollution prevention and control (so-called “A(2)” activities
  • a set of additional guidance (AQ) notes covering various other issues
  • miscellaneous other guidance.

Short guide to LAPC

General Guidance Manual (revised April 2012)

Guidance on pre-application discussions is in paragraph 4.19 of Part A of the Manual.

Process Guidance notes (PG notes)

Animal and Vegetable Processing sectors:

Combustion and Incineration:

  • PG 1/3 (12) – Boilers and furnaces, 20‑50 MW net rated thermal input PG 1/4 (11) – Gas turbines, 20-50 MW net rated thermal input
  • PG1/1 (04) – Waste oil and recovered oil burners less than 0.4MW (PDF 330 KB)
  • PG1/02 (05) - Waste oil or recovered oil burners, 0.4‑3 MW net rated thermal input (PDF 55 KB)
  • PG1/05 (95) – Compression ignition engines, 20‑50 MW net rated thermal input (unofficial version)(PDF 60 KB)
  • PG1/12 (12) – Combustion of fuel manufactured from of comprised from solid waste in appliances (PDF 455 KB)
  • PG5/2 (12) – Crematoria (PDF 550 KB) First issued February 2012. All deadlines referring to the “publication of this note” are to be calculated from that date.
  • PG5/3 (13) – Animal carcase incineration 

Minerals sector:

  • PG 3/01 (12) - Blending, packing, loading, unloading and Use of Bulk Cement (PDF 515 KB)
  • PG 3/02 (12) – Manufacture of heavy clay goods and Refractory Goods (PDF 515 KB)
  • PG 3/04 (04) – Lead glass, glass frit and enamel frit manufacturing processes (PDF 420 KB)
  • PG 3/05 (12) – Coal, coke, coal product and petroleum coke (PDF 500 KB)
  • PG 3/06 (04) – Polishing or etching glass or glass products using hydrofluoric acid (PDF 380 KB)
  • PG 3/07 (12) - Exfoliation of vermiculite and expansion of perlite (PDF 465 KB)
  • PG 3/08 (12) – Quarry processes (PDF 470 KB)
  • PG 3/12 (04) – Plaster processes (PDF 530 KB)
  • PG 3/13 (95) – Asbestos processes (non-consolidated with additional guidance (PDF 60 KB) AQ15(04))
  • PG 3/14 (04) – Lime processes (PDF 490 KB)
  • PG 3/15 (12) – Roadstone coating processes (PDF 600 KB)
  • PG 3/18 (12) – Mineral drying and cooling (PDF 600 KB)
  • PG 3/16 (12) – Mobile crushing and screening (PDF 430 KB)
  • PG 3/17 (12) – China and ball clay processes including spray drying of ceramics (PDF 665 KB)
  • PG 6/02 (12) – Manufacture of timber and wood-based products (PDF 400 KB)
  • PG 6/29 (12) – Di-isocyanate proceses (PDF 300 KB)

Metals sector:

  • PG2/01 (13) – Furnaces for the extraction of non-ferrous metal from scrap 
  • PG2/02 (13) – Hot dip galvanizing processes 
  • PG2/03 (13) – Electrical, crucible and reverberatory furnaces 
  • PG2/04 (13) – Iron, steel and non-ferrous metal foundry processes 
  • PG2/05 (13) – Hot and cold blast cupolas, and rotary furnaces 
  • PG2/06 (13) – Processes melting and producing aluminium and its alloys
  • PG2/07 (13) – Zinc and zinc alloy processes 
  • PG2/08 (13) – Copper and copper alloy processes 
  • PG2/09 (13) – Metal decontamination processes 
  • PG2/10 (13) - Melting magnesium and its alloys
  • PG4/01 (13) – Surface treatment of metal processes 
  • PG6/35 (13) – Metal and other thermal spraying processes 

Organic chemicals sector:

  • PG4/02 (05) – Fibre reinforced plastics (PDF 140 KB)

Petroleum and powder coating sector:

  • 1/13 (04) – Storage, unloading and loading petrol at terminals (PDF 715 KB)
  • 1/14 (06) – Unloading of petrol into storage at petrol stations (PDF 300 KB)
  • 6/9 (04) – Manufacture of coating powder (PDF 380 KB)
  • 6/31 (04) – Powder coating including sherardizing and vitreous enamelling dry (PDF 410 KB)
  • 6/42 (04) – Bitumen and tar processes (PDF 470 KB)

Solvents sector:

See also: Solvent process guidance notes not included as part of the 2009-12 review.

  • 6/03 (11) – Chemical treatment of timber and wood-based products (PDF 690 KB)
  • 6/07 (11) – Printing and coating of metal packaging (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/08 (11) – Textile and fabric coating and finishing (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/13 (04) – Coil coating (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/14 (11) – Film coating (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/15 (11) – Coating in drum manufacturing and reconditioning (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/16 (11) – Printing (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • 6/17 (11) – Printing of flexible packaging (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • 6/18 (11) – Paper coating (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/20 (11) – Paint application in vehicle manufacturing (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/22 (11) – Leather finishing (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/23 (11) – Coating of metal and plastic (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/25 (04) – Vegetable oil extraction and fat and oil refining (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/28 (11) – Rubber (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/32 (11) – Adhesive coating including footwear manufacturing (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/33 (11) – Wood coating (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/34 (11) – Respraying of road vehicles (PDF 520 KB)
  • 6/40 (11) – Coating and recoating of aircraft and aircraft components (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/41 (11) – Coating and recoating of rail vehicles (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/43 (11) – Formulation and finishing of pharmaceutical products (PDF 1 MB)
  • 6/44 (11) – Manufacture of coating materials (1.02 MB)
  • 6/45 (11) – Surface cleaning (PDF 920 KB)
  • 6/46 (11) – Dry cleaning (PDF 480 KB)
  • 6/47 (11) – Original coating of road vehicles and trailers (replaces PG 6/34a (06) )

6-year review of PG notes

All the PG notes are being reviewed and this will be completed by the end of 2012. Existing published PG notes remain the statutory guidance to which local authorities must have regard while any note is being reviewed. Paragraphs 31 and 32 of the consultation paper (PDF 80 KB) on the 6-year review explain the status of draft notes emerging from the 6-year review.

Sector Guidance notes (SG notes)

  • IPPC SG1 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the Particleboard, Oriented Strand Board and Dry Process Fibreboard Sector (September 2006) (PDF 600 KB)
  • IPPC SG2 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the A2 Glassmaking Sector (revised 31 October 2006) (PDF 300 KB)
  • IPPC SG3 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the A(2) Ferrous Foundries Sector (January 2006) (PDF 1 MB)
  • IPPC SG4 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for A(2) Activities in the Non-ferrous Metals Sector (January 2006) (PDF 1 MB)
  • IPPC SG5 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the A2 Galvanising Sector (September 2006) (PDF 500 KB)
  • IPPC SG6 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the A2 Surface Treatment Using Organic Solvents Sector (February 2011) (PDF 2.3 MB)
  • IPPC SG7 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the A2 Ceramics Sector including Heavy Clay, Refractories, Calcining Clay and Whiteware (September 2007) (PDF 700 KB)
  • IPPC SG8 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the A2 Rendering Sector (November 2008) (Revised December 2008) (PDF 300 KB)
  • IPPC SG9 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for A2 Roadstone Coating, Mineral and Other Processes that Burn Recovered Fuel Oil (April 2005) (PDF 1.2 MB)
  • IPPC SG10 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for the A2 Animal carcass incineration with capacity of less than 1 tonne per hour (PDF 300 KB)

The GGM, and PG and SG notes, are either issued under regulation 64 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations or shall be taken to have been issued under that regulation.

All PG and SG notes are written in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including appropriate trade associations.

AQ Notes

2013

2012

2010

  • AQ01 (10): Categories of process regulated by local authorities (by PG and SG note.

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Other guidance

  • A separate series of guidance notes has been published by Defra’s Environmental Permitting Programme. All procedural and policy guidance directly relevant to Local Authority Pollution Control should, however, be contained in the General Guidance Manual.
  • The Environment Agency publishes a wide range of guidance.
  • Guidance produced by Envirowise/Wrap can often be useful.

Page last modified: 17 April 2013