The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007

Construction and soil materials

13.—(1) Manufacturing timber products, straw board, plasterboard, bricks, blocks, roadstone or aggregate from—

(a) waste which arises from demolition or construction work or tunnelling or other excavations; or

(b) waste which consists of ash, slag, clinker, rock, wood, bark, paper, straw or gypsum.

(2) Manufacturing soil or soil substitutes from any of the wastes listed in sub-paragraph (1) if—

(a) the manufacture is carried out at the place where either the waste is produced or the manufactured product is to be applied to land; and

(b) the total amount manufactured at that place on any day does not exceed 500 tonnes.

(3) Treatment of waste soil or rock which, when treated, is to be spread on land under paragraph 7 or 9, if—

(a) it is carried out at the place where the waste is produced or the treated product is to be spread; and

(b) the total amount treated at that place in any day does not exceed 100 tonnes.

(4) Storage of waste which is to be submitted to any operation falling within sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) if—

(a) the waste is stored at the place where the operation is to be carried on; and

(b) the total quantity of waste stored at that place does not exceed—

(i) in the case of the manufacture of roadstone from road planings, 50,000 tonnes, and

(ii) in any other case, 20,000 tonnes.