NIEA Authorised Waste Sites: Permits and Licences

Northern Ireland Environment Agency data catalogs all authorized waste treatment and storage sites, detailing their operational status from 'Active' to 'Exemption Revoked'. This dataset provides a regulatory snapshot of waste site authorizations as of February 2021. Its structured status field clarifies the legal standing of each site, from valid permits to surrendered licenses.

Use Cases

• Regulatory compliance monitoring based on the detailed 'Status' field (e.g., Active, Revoked, Suspended).
• Spatial analysis of waste facility locations for environmental impact assessments.
• Tracking changes in waste site authorizations over time using status transition codes.
• Verifying site legitimacy for waste producers seeking compliant disposal partners.

Strengths

• Provides a detailed, enumerated list of 10 distinct authorization statuses for precise regulatory interpretation.
• Cross-platform presence on EU and UK government data portals indicates official provenance and importance.
• Released under the permissive Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0) for reuse.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, column names, and file size are unknown across all sources.
• Data freshness is a conflict: descriptions state an update from February 2021, but platform metadata lists a 'last updated' date of July 2026.
• Lacks documentation on specific data columns beyond the described 'Status' field.

Provenance

Source

Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), part of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official regulatory databases under waste management legislation.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 01 February 2021.

Freshness

Data extracted on 01/02/21, updated on platform 08/02/21. Platform metadata lists a conflicting 'last updated' date of 2026-07-08.

Geography

Northern Ireland.