Application for a Scrap Metal Licence
  • Application for a Scrap Metal Licence

    Upon completion and submission of this form you will be contacted by our Environmental Health team who will advise if your application has been successful and the fee you will need to pay
  • Please click here to view the guidance notes if you need help completing your application

  • SECTION 1 - For All Applicants

  • Please select the type of licence you are applying for:
  • Are you applying as:
  • Is this application for a grant of a new licence or a renewal? Please select as appropriate:
  • SECTION 2. Permits, registrations and licences in force

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  • Are you registered as a waste carrier? You will not be issued with either a collectors licence or a site licence without being registered as a waste carrier with the Environment Agency.
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  • Have you ever been refused a scrap metal licence, a waste carriers licence or a waste management licence in the past?
  • SECTION 3. TO BE COMPLETED IF APPLYING FOR A SITE LICENCE A site licence authorises the licensee to carry on business at any site in the authority’s area. You can apply to licence multiple sites using this form.

  • I am 18 years old or over
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  • I attach a Basic Disclosure Certificate issued for the applicant by Disclosure Scotland. If you do not provide a disclosure certificate your application may be delayed or rejected.
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  • Contact Details

    We will use your business address to correspond with you unless you indicate we should use your home address
  • Format: 00000-0000[0].
  • Format: 00000-0000[0].
  • Would you prefer us to use your Home address for correspondence?
  • SITE DETAILS

    Please list the details for each site where you propose to carry on business as a scrap metal dealer in this local authority area. If the applicant operates multiple sites within a licensing authority area; provision should be made for more than one site manager. Include a site plan which can be uploaded as a separate file and provide a detailed description of each site you use.
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  • Basic Disclosure certificate attached?
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  • PARTNERSHIPS - If you are applying as a partnership, please provide the following details in respect of each partner

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  • COMPANIES (If you are applying as a company please provide the details set out below about the company)

  • Please provide the following details for each director(s), shadow director(s) and company secretary where these are different from the applicant and site manager(s)

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  • Please provide details of any site in the area of any other local authority at which the applicant carries on business as a scrap metal dealer or proposes to do so

  • Do you have planning permission? (only applicable to sites established after 1st November 1990)
  • Further information about Basic Disclosure Certificates and Disclosure Scotland are set out in the explanatory notes here

    Please also state your maiden name or any other surnames you have previously been known by 

    Please provide the site manager’s home address as this will facilitate conducting checks on whether they are a suitable person

    If you do not provide a disclosure certificate issued for named persons by Disclosure Scotland issued no more than three months before the date of this application your application may be delayed or rejected

    Please provide the director’s home address as this will facilitate conducting checks on whether they are a suitable person

  • SECTION 4 - TO BE COMPLETED IF APPLYING FOR A COLLECTOR’S LICENCE. A collector’s licence authorises the licensee to carry out business as a mobile collector in the authority’s area only

  • Details of prospective licence holder

  • I am 18 years old or over
  • Date of Birth
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  • I attach a Basic Disclosure Certificate for the applicant by Disclosure Scotland (If you do not provide a disclosure certificate your application may be delayed or rejected)
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  • Contact Details

    We will use your business address to correspond with you unless you indicate we should use your home address
  • Format: 00000-00000[0].
  • Format: 00000-00000[0].
  • Further information about Basic Disclosure Certificates and Disclosure Scotland are set out in the explanatory notes which can be viewed here 

  • SECTION 5. MOTOR SALVAGE (For all applicants)

  • Will your business consist of acting as a motor salvage operator? This is defined as a business that:

    • wholly or in part recovers salvageable parts from motor vehicles for re-use or re-sale, and then sells
      the rest of the vehicle for scrap;
    • wholly or mainly involves buying written-off vehicles and then repairing and selling them off; and,
    • wholly or mainly buys or sells motor vehicles for the purpose of salvaging parts from them or repairing
      them and selling them off.

    To operate as a motor salvage operator you will need to apply for a site licence.

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  • SECTION 6. BANK ACCOUNTS THAT WILL BE USED FOR PAYMENTS TO SUPPLIERS (For all applicants)

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  • SECTION 7. CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS (For all applicants)

  • Have you, any listed partners, any listed directors, or any listed site manager(s) in this application ever been convicted of a relevant offence or been the subject of any relevant enforcement action? (Please see below for a list of relevant offences). Please list any convictions spent or not if relevant.
  • SECTION 8. DECLARATION (For all applicants)

    Even if someone has filled this form in for you, you must agree to this declaration.
  • The information contained in this form is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that if I make a material statement knowing it to be false, or if I recklessly make a material statement which is false, I will be committing an offence under Schedule 1 Para 5 of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013, for which I may be prosecuted, and if convicted, fined.


    I understand that the local authority to whom I make my application may consult other agencies about my suitability to be licensed as a scrap metal dealer, as per section 3(7) of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013, and that those other agencies may include other local authorities, the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales, and the police.


    I understand that the purpose of the sharing of this data is to form a full assessment of my suitability to be licensed as a scrap metal dealer. I also understand that the sharing of information about me may extend to sensitive personal data, such as data about any previous criminal offences. Some details will also be displayed on a national register, as required by the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013. I hereby expressly consent to this processing of my data and display of relevant information on the public register.


    I know that I must let you know in writing straight away about any change in my circumstances that may affect my application as I may be liable to prosecution, and if convicted, fined.

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