The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Interpretation: regulated facility and class of regulated facility

8.—(1) In these Regulations, “ regulated facility” means any of the following—

(a) an installation;

(b) mobile plant;

(c) a waste operation;

(d) a mining waste operation;

(e) a radioactive substances activity;

(f) a water discharge activity;

(g) a groundwater activity;

(h) a small waste incineration plant;

(i) a solvent emission activity;

(j) a flood risk activity.

(2) But the following are not regulated facilities—

(a) an exempt facility;

(b) an excluded waste operation;

(c) the disposal or recovery of household waste from a domestic property within the curtilage of that property by a person other than an establishment or undertaking;

(d) an excluded flood risk activity.

(3) In these Regulations, a reference to a class of regulated facility is a reference to a class in paragraph (1).

(4) A regulated facility of any of the following classes may be carried on as part of the operation of a regulated facility of another class—

(a) a waste operation;

(b) a mining waste operation;

(c) a water discharge activity;

(d) a groundwater activity;

(e) a small waste incineration plant;

(f) a solvent emission activity;

(g) a flood risk activity.