Medium combustion plant: when you need a permit
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Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Excluded MCP
- MCPs that are also under the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED)
- MCPs that are also an environmental permitting Part B activity
- Mobile MCPs and mobile boilers
- On-farm combustion
- Direct heating and drying
- Direct gas-fired heating
- Flare stacks
- Combustion plant designed or used to purify waste gases
- Vehicle, ship or aircraft
- Offshore platforms
- Refineries
- Crematoria and cowpers
- Pulp recovery boilers
- Research, development and testing
- Firefighting training facilities
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Medium combustion plant: when you need a permit’ (updated 9 July 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026