Apply for Chimney height approval and installing a furnace

Application for approval of the height of chimney stack

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Clean Air Act 1993 Sections 14 & 15 – Chimney Heights
The third edition of the 1956 Clean Air Act Memorandum on chimney heights (issued with Joint Circular DoE 25/81 Welsh Office 12/81) provides technical guidance.
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Is the address of premises where chimney(s) is/are or will be constructed different from above?Yes No
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Will you be employing a contractor?Yes No
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Brief description of proposed works
Category under which chimney height approval is sought(a) construction of new chimney(s) (b) increase of combustion space of existing furnace, including addition of a new furnace to an existing installation (c) Replacement of furnace by one having larger combustion space
Application made by, please give first and last name
Date of application made
* 3 Section 15(4) of the Clean Air Act 1968 provides as follows: "If a local authority to whom an application is duly made for approval fail to determine the application and to give a written notification of their decision to the applicant within four weeks of receiving the application or such longer period as may be agreed in writing between the applicant and the authority, the approval applied for shall be treated as having been granted without qualification".
Particulars to accompany application for approval
A. Description and use of furnace(s)
1. Intended use of furnace(s), for example boiler plant, metal or reheating, calcing or drying.
The information should relate to the total furnace or boiler plant which the proposed chimney will serve after all the works have been completed.
2. Type and description of furnace(s).
The information should relate to the total furnace or boiler plant which the proposed chimney will serve after all the works have been completed.
3. (a) Particulars of furnace(s) to be installed
3. (b) Particulars of changes intended to existing furnace(s)
4. (c) Particulars of Furnace(s) to be removed
B. Rating and fuel consumption.
The information should relate to the total furnace or boiler plant which the proposed chimney will serve after all the works have been completed.
4.(a) Maximum continuous rating of boiler(s) (MW (megawatts) or pounds steam per hour from and at 100°C., or B.t.u.'s per hour.
4.(b) Maximum rate of fuel consumption in kilograms per hour or cubic metres per hour (separately for different fuels)
5.(a) Type(s) of fuel to be used. (If oil specify type and viscosity. If solid fuel give Coal Board specification, or colliery source, if known.)
5.(b) Gross calorific value in MJ/kg or MJ/m 3 (separately for different fuels)
6. Sulphur content of fuel %
C. Particulars of Emissions
7. Quantity and quality of emission (if any) from the material being heated e.g., fume sulphur trioxide, hydrogen sulphide
8.(a) Volume of chimney gases at working temperature (cubic metres per second calculated from paragraph 4(b) above)
8.(b) Working temperature of chimney gases in degree C. (State point of measurement)
8. (c) Efflux velocity of chimney gases at working temperature and at maximum loading of plant (metres per sec.)
D. Particulars of buildings
9. Height of building to which the chimney(s) is/are attached
10. Length of building to which the chimney(s) is/are attached
11. Width of building to which the chimney(s) is/are attached
12. Height(s) of adjacent building(s)
13. Distance of adjacent buildings from proposed chimney(s)
E. Particulars of chimney for which approval required
14. Height of chimney above ground level
15. Details of construction of chimney (materials, insulation, single or multi-flue internal diameter of chimney top)
F. Supplementary information
Scale site plan of proposal, together with scale site plan of other emission sources on same site with heights of chimneys and approximate distances from chimney(s) for which approval is sought needs to be provided.
The site plan must clearly show the relationship between the proposed and other development and the surrounding topographical features and the relationship between the proposal and those features.
Please upload the main plan below, all other supporting documents should be sent to EnvHealthTeam@basingstoke.gov.uk
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Application for approval of the height of chimney stack

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