Division 02 · Permitted Combustion Register
The plant
with a deadline.
Permitted generators, boilers, CHP and standby plant in your territory — operator resolved to its registered company, thermal rating stated, permit class and status current, and a statutory emissions-testing clock read straight out of the regulator's own compliance documents.
This is the rare register where "due" isn't an opinion. On the best records, the regulator wrote the next date itself and we quote it, with the report reference and the page.
COVERAGE: 5,189 permit entries walked in full · 581 combustion permits retained
DOCUMENT LAYER: 265 permits with compliance shelves · 286 reports parsed · 133 sites with verified evidence
- Operator
- ██████ Panel Products Ltd[1]
- Site
- Oldham, OL9 ███[2]
- Permit class
- Medium combustion · 4 units[2]
- Registered
- Nov 2024[2]
- Test window
- FIRST TEST — closes Mar 2025[3]
- Evidence
- Registration only — verify[2]
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Why this register, now
Compliance is a calendar. Somebody has to service it.
Permitted combustion plant carries obligations that don't move: periodic emissions measurement on a fixed cycle, first tests within months of registration, and emission-limit deadlines written into law years in advance. Every one of those is a job. The operators know the dates exist; most have no idea when theirs falls, and the register does.
Periodic emissions measurement. First test within months of registration, then on a fixed cycle — tighter for larger plant. A booked visit, on a date you can name.
Emission-limit deadlines. Existing plant in the lower band faces a hard date at the turn of the decade; the upper band is already live. Both mean specification work.
A result in the last report. An exceedance at a single emission point is a scheduled return visit and, often, a plant conversation nobody else knows to have.
Where the permit shelf holds no dated evidence, the record can't claim a deadline. It's graded down and labelled as a hypothesis worth one call — not sold to you as urgent.
A record in full
The regulator's own date. Quoted.
One record from the Permitted Combustion Register, shown complete. Values are illustrative; the field structure, evidence tiers, clock logic and scoring are exactly as shipped. Note the evidence block — that's the difference between this register and a permit list.
Official stated in a statutory source or document Matched joined across sources, confidence stated Inferred derived from a named rule Modelled estimated, bounds shown
01 · Operator & site
- Operator
- Off███████ Coatings LtdCompanies House 0█████6 · active · 3 directors on file
- Trade
- OffSIC 20301 · industrial coatingsProcess heat — the plant is not optional to their output
- Site
- OffLincoln, LN6 ███Street address taken from the permit record, not geocoded
- Permit holder
- MatSame entity as operatorPermit name matched to registered company
- From your base
- Mod41 mi · 58 min
02 · Permitted plant
- Permit ref
- Off████/█████Status: Effective · checked in the Jul 2026 walk
- Class
- OffMedium combustion plant
- Thermal input
- Off12.4 MWth aggregatedStated in the compliance report, not the register listing
- Units
- Off3 · natural gasUnit inventory extracted from the report's plant schedule
- Emission points
- Off3
- Limit regime
- InfLimits live since Jan 2025Band derived from thermal input + registration vintage
03 · Statutory clock
- Last measurement
- Off12 Sep 2023Signal: CONFIRMED — date appears verbatim in the report
- Next due
- Offby 30 SEP 2026Stated by the regulator in the report — 64 days from build
- Basis
- OffReport ████, p.4Quoted verbatim on the licensed record, with the document
- Last result
- OffPass · 1 exceedanceEmission point 2 — return visit recorded as required
- Cycle status
- OffRegulator-statedNot inferred. This is the top rung of the evidence ladder.
04 · Commercial
- Monitoring visit
- Mod£1,500 – £3,500 (est.)Flat band — never scaled to the site's rating
- Service position
- Mod£12,400 – £37,200/yr (est.)Derived from the thermal band, not the exact rating
- Exceedance work
- ModReturn visit + remedialScope unknown from public record — priced on the call
- Limit compliance
- ModSpecification opportunityBurner/abatement review triggered by the live limit regime
- Renewal
- InfRecurring on cycleThe clock doesn't stop. Neither does the contract.
Every date in this block was required to appear verbatim in the source document before it was allowed onto the record. Anything that failed that check is flagged for review, not published.
PRIORITY FALLS IF — the operator has already booked the September measurement with an existing provider, or the plant has been derated below the threshold since the last assessment. Both are one question each, and the record tells you to ask them before you quote.
Illustrative composite. Field structure, evidence tiers, clock logic and scoring are as shipped.
The register listing gives you a name and a permit number. The thermal rating, the unit inventory, the monitoring dates and the result all live in a document behind it. Retrieving and reading those at scale is the work.
Every extracted date must appear word-for-word in its source document before it reaches a record. Failures go to human review. A machine-read value is never promoted to confirmed on its own.
Sealed sample pages recompute values from the thermal band rather than the exact rating, so nothing leaks before a licence. Test cost is a flat band for the same reason.
Site coordinates come from the permit record's own address and grid-reference fields. Regional labels are never geocoded to a centroid — that's how plant 40 miles outside your patch ends up in your pack.
The evidence ladder
Four rungs. Only the top one is a deadline.
Every record on this register sits on a named rung, printed on the page. The rung determines the grade — the build enforces it, so no record can be talked upward.
The regulator states the next due date in a document we hold. Quoted with the report reference and page. Grades P1 · ACT NOW. This is the only rung where the word "due" appears without a qualifier.
Permit-stated testing frequency. Held back until we have the permit condition documents to support it. We'd rather tell you a rung is empty than fill it with an assumption.
Confirmed last test plus the published cycle. The last measurement date is real and cited; the forward date is arithmetic. Grades P1 · VERIFY & SCHEDULE — worth a call today, described accurately.
A compliance shelf with no parseable dates, or a registration date only. A hypothesis, not a deadline. Capped at second or third priority regardless of how attractive the site looks.
Where this comes from
Public register. Private effort.
The permit register is open to anyone. Reading it end to end, retrieving the documents behind each entry, extracting a plant inventory from them and validating every date against its own source is the part that isn't.
5,189 entries walked end to end in the latest pass, of which 581 combustion permits are retained. An earlier ceiling of 4,000 had been silently hiding 23% of the market; completeness is now a build assertion rather than a hope.
Permit ref · class · status · site address · coordinatesBehind each permit sits a shelf of compliance and permitting documents that the register's own search will not surface. 265 permits carry one; 286 reports have been retrieved and read; 133 sites now hold verified compliance evidence.
Monitoring dates · next-due · units · emission points · resultPublished measurement frequencies and emission-limit deadlines, applied as named rules with their exceptions disclosed on the record — including the reduced-hours exception that changes the answer for some sites.
First-test window · periodic cycle · limit datesPermit holder resolved to a registered company: status, directors, group structure, charges. A permit in the name of a dissolved entity is a different conversation, and we'd rather you knew before you dialled.
Entity · status · directors · ownershipCoverage note: England is complete. The devolved regulators publish separately and are in build — your cover sheet always states the universe it was drawn from.
On the register this week
A feed, not a file.
Permits change status, compliance reports publish, first-test windows open and close. Subscribers get their territory's changes weekly, flagged with what to do about them.
Compliance report published against a 12MWth site — regulator-stated next date extracted and validated. Record promoted from predicted to confirmed.
Complete register walk: 581 combustion permits retained, 4 no longer effective, status re-checked on every one.
Two new registrations in territory — first-test window now open on both, closing within four months of registration.
Cohort flag: 35 permits in territory now 15 years or older — overhaul-window candidates, labelled as estimates pending trade calibration.
717 stale rows pruned after the complete walk. Territory counts corrected downward, and we said so on the cover.
Territories
A smaller register. A sharper one.
There are hundreds of permitted combustion sites, not thousands — and that is the point. Every one is a named operator with a statutory obligation and a plant inventory. One licensed firm per territory.
| Territory | Permitted sites | With compliance evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| North West | 96 | 24 | Available |
| Yorkshire & North East | 193 | 44 | Available |
| East & West Midlands | 118 | 27 | Available |
| East of England | 74 | 17 | Available |
| London & South East | 63 | 14 | Available |
| South West | 37 | 7 | Available |
| Wales, Scotland & NI | — | — | In build |
| England — national licence | 581 | 133 | By enquiry |
Territories overlap at the boundaries; packs are cut by radius from your depot rather than by administrative line. Counts move with each complete walk — including downward, when delisted permits are pruned.
The arithmetic
The clock resets. So does the invoice.
A single periodic emissions measurement is a four-figure visit. An annual service and compliance position on a permitted site runs into four or five figures a year, and it renews on a statutory cycle rather than a purchasing whim. Limit-compliance work on burners and abatement is a separate, larger conversation that starts from the same call.
The register hands you the sites, the ratings, the last verified test position and — where the regulator has stated it — the actual date.
One retained compliance client > twelve months of the licence, every year it renews.
Straight answers
The questions you're already asking.
Can I not just search the permit register myself?
You can, and you'll get a name, a permit number and a class. What you won't get from the search page is the thermal rating, the unit inventory, the emission points, the last monitoring date, the result, or the regulator's stated next date — because those live in documents attached to each permit, one entry at a time, several thousand entries deep.
Retrieving those, reading them, validating every extracted figure against its own text and tying the permit holder to a live registered company is the register.
Do you actually know when every site's next test is due?
No, and we won't claim it. On sites where the regulator stated the next date in a document, we quote it with the reference — that's the top rung and it's a genuine deadline. On sites with a confirmed last test but no stated next date, we count the published cycle forward and label it predicted. On sites with registration only, it's a hypothesis worth one call and it's graded accordingly.
Every record tells you which of those three it is, in those words, on the page.
How do I know the extracted figures are right?
Because every date and figure taken from a document has to appear verbatim in that document before it's allowed onto a record — the check is automated and it runs on every build. Anything that fails goes to human review rather than to you. The source document reference and page sit on the licensed record, so you can open it yourself.
Where do the cost estimates come from?
Published trade ranges, applied as bands and labelled (est.) everywhere they appear. They are tunable constants, not findings, and we're calibrating them with input from firms in the trade. Where a figure hasn't been calibrated for your sector yet, the register says "in calibration" rather than presenting a confident number.
Is Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland covered?
Not yet on this register — the devolved regulators publish separately and each needs its own ingest. England is complete and walked end to end. Your cover sheet always states the universe your pack was drawn from, so you never have to guess whether a gap is a gap or an absence.
What does it cost?
Territory licences start at £499 a month on a six-month minimum term, priced to the size of your patch — sites on register and how many carry live evidence — and quoted with your sample pack. National licences by enquiry.
Free territory sample
See your patch first.
A sample pack for your territory within two working days, led by the verified-evidence queue: one record fully open with its compliance evidence block intact, the surrounding records sealed, and a compliance calendar for your patch — tests due within twelve months, first-test cohort, and plant carrying live limit obligations.