Public Participation Directive (PPD) consultations
Service status
A sophisticated criminal cyber-attack has had a major impact on the way SEPA works. We are working through all the services that we provide to understand what we need to do in the short and longer term to restore services. We are approaching this work with a sense of urgency.
- Check the service status
- Approach to Delivery of Services Until June 2021
- Information about the cyber-attack
Service status update 5 February 2021: Permitting
What are we able to do now?
- We are not currently able to receive, verify or determine applications for Waste Management Licences, Complex Waste Exemptions, New Waste Carriers Licences, Controlled Activities in the Water Environment, and PPC Part A & B. Please do not submit any application or contact us unless you require authorisation within the next three weeks.
- The exceptions to this are existing private sewage treatment systems (septic tanks) or renewal of Waste Carrier Licences.
What should you do now?
- Please do not submit any applications at this time and check regular updates.
- Contact us at sepa.org.uk/contact if your authorisation is required urgently within the next three weeks.
Next update: 12 February 2021
If you need to contact us, please use the online contact form.
Public Participation Directive (PPD) consultations
View applications which are now closed and where SEPA has published its decision
Permit | Applicant | Added to Website |
PPC/E/0020021 | Superglass Insulation Limited Thistle Industrial Estate, Stirling, FK7 7QQ |
13 August 2019 |
PPC/A/1144226 | WRG (Northern) Limited Tarbothill Leachate Treatment Plant, Aberdeen |
25 July 2018 |
PPC/A/1003157 | MVV Environmental Baldovie Ltd MVV Environmental Baldovie Limited, Dundee |
24 November 2020 |
PPC/A/1013107 | Ineos FPS Limited Kinneil Terminal, Bo'ness Road, Grangemouth, Falkirk, FK3 9XQ |
15 December 2020 |