FOI request (FOI207263)

Scrap Metal Dealers

Requested Wed 22 February 2017
Responded Wed 22 February 2017

1.            How many visits have your Local Authority Officers made to licensed Scrap Metal Dealers in order to enforce the provisions of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013?

Please break down by periods

Dec 2013 – Nov 2014

Dec 2014 – Nov 2015

Dec 2015 – Nov 2016

2.            How many Scrap Metal Dealers were licensed with yourselves as at 31st January 2014? Please break down by 'Collectors' and 'Site'.

3.            How many of the above (question 2) have renewed their licence as of 31st January 2017?

4.            Please advise your charges as at December 2013 for a) Site Licences and b) Collectors Licences, please also advise whether your fees have changed as at 31st January 2017.

5.            How many closure orders have been issued or enforcement actions  undertaken by yourselves between December 2013 and November 2016? 

6.            When authorising or renewing a Scrap Metal Dealers Licence please advise whether your Authority confirms that the Scrap Metal Dealer holds the following?

A)            Environmental Permit

B)            Waste Carriers License

C)            Planning Permission

D)            Wamitab

Response