LA-IPPC and LAPPC - Policy and Procedure for Permitting Installations: Secretary of State's Guidance - Consultation

Note: This consultation has now closed. A summary of responses is now available (Adobe Acrobat format, 15kb). Details of the finalised manual are available at this page.

The following material has been left in place for reference/archive purposes.

This consultation exercise seeks your comments and views on draft general guidance which aims to set out the policy and procedures of the two local authority components of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000; Local Authority Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (LA-IPPC) and Local Authority Pollution Prevention and Control (LAPPC). The same guidance may also apply in Wales; a decision will be made on this shortly.

Further details are in a news release issued on 2 October launching this consultation.

The document has been made available, in Adobe Acrobat format, for downloading in the following sections:

• Covering letter (25kb)
• Main Consultation Document (Section A) (360kb)
• Section B - Annexes (150kb)
• Section C - Application Forms (230kb)

  [Note: in view of the large size of the Acrobat files, we have sought to assist interested readers by producing a more compact version. The contents are unchanged. Readers may find it useful to save the file directly onto their own PC: using Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As"; using the Netscape web browser right-click on the link and choose "Save Link As".]

All comments received by no later than 31 December 2002 will be carefully considered.

Comments on the draft guidance should be sent to

Issues for consultation

You are, in particular, invited to comment on the following:

• whether the amount of guidance is right: both quantity and level of detail. What should be added or deleted?
• whether the guidance is written clearly enough to satisfy the likely readership (bearing in mind the constraint of having at times to stick closely to the legal drafting). What improvements could be made?
• whether the guidance is structured and presented sufficiently clearly. Any suggestions?
• the content of the guidance
• the content of the appended specimen forms.

Background

Under the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1990 and the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000, local authorities were newly given responsibility for integrated pollution control over certain categories of industrial installation. This is known as Local Authority Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (LA-IPPC), and the installations and activities are often referred to as Part A2. The existing Local Air Pollution Control regime also transfers into the Local Air Pollution Prevention and Control (LAPPC) system (Part B) under the new legislation.

Apart from a small number of new Part A installations and substantial changes to Part A2 installations, the new controls do not begin to come into force until April 2003, and the systems are phased in over a period of years.