Onerous Waste Plant Permit Allowed

Environmental Law Provision in Breach of Rights to Fair
Trial?
Environment Agency v Biffa Waste Services Ltd
QBD
12 December 2006
Daily Law Notes Summary
A condition of a pollution prevention and control permit issued
by the Environment Agency which prohibited the emission of
odours from a waste management facility at levels which were
likely to cause pollution “as perceived by an authorised officer
of the Agency” was neither invalid nor ultra vires.