Reayrt Vradda - Demolition Waste

Summary

The requester asked for a waste exemption application form submitted by Reayrt Vradda in August 2023 and an explanation for why the matter was not followed up if no form existed. The Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture responded that no written application was ever received, though site inspections confirmed the waste was used for approved construction purposes under existing regulations.

Key Facts

• The authority does not hold a record of any written waste exemption application from Reayrt Vradda.
• An email requesting the application was sent to a company director on 25 August 2023.
• There is no legal requirement for such an exemption to be authorized by the Department.
• Site inspections confirmed the demolition waste was deposited for construction purposes on the land.
• The site has planning approval under references PA 20/00496/B and 21/01009/B for a glamping pod tourist site.

Data Disclosed

• 25 August 2023
• 2 December 2025
• 08 December 2025
• 5133149
• PA 20/00496/B
• 21/01009/B
• Collection and Disposal of Waste Regulations 2000
• Schedule 2
• Schedule 5
• Freedom of Information Act 2015

Original Request

Please provide a copy of the waste exemption application form that the Departments Environmental Protection Unit requested that Reayrt Vradda submit to the Department in an email to the company dated 25th August 2023. If no form was submitted, please advise why the matter was not followed up.

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Freedom of Information Co-ordinator Corporate Services Directorate Thie Slieau Whallian, Foxdale Road, St John’s, Isle of Man, IM4 3AS Tel no (01624) 685854 Fax no (01624 685851 Email: defa@gov.im www.gov.im

Our ref: 5133149 08 December 2025

Dear ###

We write further to your request received 2 December 2025, which states:

Please provide a copy of the waste exemption application form that the Departments Environmental Protection Unit requested that Reayrt Vradda submit to the Department in an email to the company dated 25th August 2023.

If no form was submitted, please advise why the matter was not followed up.

Please see below the information being released to you.

Please provide a copy of the waste exemption application form that the Departments Environmental Protection Unit requested that Reayrt Vradda submit to the Department in an email to the company dated 25th August 2023.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find the information that you have requested. This is because, although an application for a waste exemption for import of construction and demolition waste to Reayrt Vradda was asked for on 25 August 2023 from a Director of the company developing the site at that time, we have no record of receiving any written application.

If no form was submitted, please advise why the matter was not followed up.

There is no legal requirement for an application for such an exemption or for such an exemption to be authorised by the Department, however particularly in cases where there are complaints, the Environmental Protection Unit will ask for completion of a form to demonstrate deposit of such waste meets the exemption criteria and does not require a Waste Disposal Licence.

To offer advise and assistance, the relevant sections of the Collection and Disposal of Waste Regulations 2000, are:

Schedule 2 - Waste to be treated as industrial waste 5. Waste arising from works of construction or demolition, including waste arising from work preparatory thereto.

Schedule 5 - Activities for which a disposal licence is not required 4. (1) The deposit on land of wastes of the descriptions set out in paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 2, or of ash, slag or clinker, provided that the deposit: (a) Is made for the purposes of construction currently being undertaken on the land on which the waste is deposited, and (b) Is made by, or with the consent of, the lawful occupier of the land.

A full copy of the Collection and Disposal of Waste Regulations is available here: www.tynwald.org.im/spfile?file=/links/tls/SD/2000/2000-SD-0696.PDF

Further to complaints about illegal deposit and processing of waste at this site several site inspections were carried out by Environmental Protection Officers who were satisfied the construction and demolition waste deposited was for the purposes of construction on site and a Waste Disposal Licence was not required. The site was identified as having planning approved under PA 20/00496/B and 21/01009/B for the development of a glamping pod/cabin tourist site and permitted considerable landscaping which it was understood this material was predominantly being used.

Please quote the reference number 5133149 in any future communications.

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Yours sincerely