Public Registers Online

The Environment Agency licenses industry, business and individuals to carry out certain activities that have the potential to pollute the environment.

Public Registers Online service allows you to search for:

• Environmental permits and licences
• Exemptions
• Waste Carriers, Brokers and Dealers
• Scrap Metal Dealers

Please note: Enforcement Actions will not appear in this search. You should search the Enforcement Actions register instead.

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Use this if you know a permit number or business name

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Use this to search by business name, permit number, local authority, or address

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Environmental Permitting Regulations

• Waste Operations

  Find Environmental Permits allowing operators to use, recycle, treat, store, or dispose of waste or mining waste. The permit can be for activities at one site or for a mobile plant used at many sites.

• End of Life Vehicles (ATF Register)

  Find Authorised Treatment Sites (ATF) depolluting and dismantling End of Life Vehicles (ELV).

• Installations

  Find Environmental Permits for industrial installations such as refineries, food and drink factories or those performing intensive farming activities such as large-scale chicken farms.

• Discharges to Water and Groundwater

  Find Environmental Permits authorising discharges of potentially polluting liquids into or onto the ground, or into the surface waters.

• Radioactive Substances

  Find Environmental Permits issued to organisations keeping or using radioactive substances or storing or disposing of radioactive waste.

Other searchable registers

• Waste Carriers, Brokers and Dealers

  Find people or businesses registered as Waste Carriers, Brokers or Dealers, allowing them to transport, buy, sell, or dispose of waste, or to arrange for someone else to do so.

• Waste Exemptions

  Find waste operations exempt from needing an environmental permit. Specific limits and conditions apply.

• Water Quality Exemptions

  Find low risk water discharge and groundwater activities exempt from requiring a permit.

• Scrap Metal Dealers

  Search for people or businesses who trade in scrap metal and are licensed by their Local Authority.

• Enforcement Actions

  Find information about formal cautions and prosecutions carried out by the Environment Agency (contains actions against companies only).

• Flood Risk Activity Exemptions

  Find activities in, over, under or near a main river or sea defence that are exempt from needing an environmental permit.

Public Register information on gov.uk

More information about other Environment Agency’s public registers is available on gov.uk.

Go to Access the public register for environmental information pages to find out about:

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
• Packaging and batteries
• Large raised reservoirs