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Properties on a Friday week 1 Waste and Recycling collection incorrectly showing a non-recycling collection due today 19th April 2025.

We are aware of an error impacting Friday week 1 waste collections, which meant some properties showed a non-recycling waste collection due today, 19th April, on Where I Live and the Our Street App, ahead of weekly collections starting from 28th April. This collection was showing in error and the issue which caused this has now been resolved. As per the fortnightly week 1 waste collection still active, your next collection was due Saturday 26th April, and weekly thereafter. Please therefore take your black wheelie bin back in and represent this on your next collection date. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this error may have caused.

Pollution Control - Clean Air Act Approval

The Clean Air Act, 1993, introduced a wide range of new regulations such as: those for smoke emissions and the height of chimneys and those relating to the composition of motor fuels.

The control of chimney heights enables local authorities to take into account a number of relevant factors in determining the height of a chimney.

Basildon Council's Environmental Health services must consider an application for approval for chimney height for a furnace and give a written decision within 28 days of receipt, unless it is agreed in writing between us and the applicant that a longer period is allowed.

If we fail to deal with the application within this time period, then approval without qualification is given.

An application for chimney height approval must contain adequate information to enable the necessary calculations to be carried out.

Under section 14 of the Act, unless the height of the chimney has been approved by the local authority and any conditions attached to approval adhered to, it is an offence to cause to cause or knowingly permit a furnace to be used to:

  • burn pulverised fuel
  • burn at a rate of 45.4 kg or more an hour any other solid matter or
  • burn at a rate equivalent to 366.4 kW or more any liquid or gaseous matter

Download a copy of the Clean Air (Chimney Heights) application form (PDF, 74 KB)


Further Information and Guidance can be found at:
 

DEFRA - Dept for Environment Food & Rural Affairs. (opens new window) (Pollution Prevention & Control)

NetRegs - environmental guidance for your business (opens new window) (Clean Air)
 


 Contacting Us.

Telephone: 01268 533333

Email: ehs@basildon.gov.uk

Write:

Manager of Environmental Health Services
The Basildon Centre,
St. Martins Square,
Basildon, Essex.
SS14 1DL.