Industrial permitting and planning

CERC carries out a huge variety of air quality assessments for permit applications, planning applications or risk assessments, for sites in the UK and overseas.

CERC's industrial clients have included United Utilities, BP, British Sugar, EDF Energy, Johnson Matthey, Mitsubishi Industries, EET Fuels, Savills and Equinor. We undertake many studies in growth sectors such as amine-based carbon capture, data centres, back-up generation and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

We use our ADMS industrial air pollution model for the majority of these assessments; as developers of the model, we have unrivalled expertise in its application.

Our reports meet regulatory requirements for planning and permitting, and follow best practice, based on the most up-to-date guidance. We present model outputs for comparison against standards, with concentration maps showing how impacts vary across the surrounding area.

We also calculate pollutant concentrations and deposition rates for the protection of vegetation and ecosystems and carry out Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA), for heavy metals or dioxins, in line with the US EPA Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol (HHRAP).

Our section on planning and development control may also be of interest.