Explosives site licence

Terms of licence

The following are the terms annexed to the Licence number dated for an Explosives Site.

1. The Explosives Site shall be that shown bounded by the red line on the Plan A, signed by one of HM Inspectors of Health and Safety (Explosives).
2. No explosives shall be manufactured or stored at the Explosives Site other than those specified in the Explosives Schedule.
3. The buildings and works in, or connected with, the Explosives Site shall be at the locations shown on the Plan B signed by one of HM Inspectors of Health and Safety (Explosives) and their construction shall be as specified in the Building Schedule.
4. The activities to be carried on in each part of the Explosives Site and the place at which each such activity is to be carried on shall be those specified in the Building Schedule.
5. The limitations as to the descriptions and amount of explosives and articles liable to spontaneous ignition, or inflammable, or otherwise dangerous, to be allowed in each building or part of the Explosives Site shall be those specified in the Building Schedule.
6. The distances to be maintained between the buildings and works in or connected with the Explosives Site and such outside buildings and works as are defined, by class, below shall be those specified in each case in the Building Schedule. If at any time after the grant of this Licence, by reason of the presence of any such outside building or works, or where applicable, the maximum population count in the Building Schedule being exceeded, any building or works of the Explosives Site ceases to be beyond the distances in the said Schedule, the quantity of explosives present in such buildings or works shall be NIL, or such quantity as one of HM Inspectors of Health and Safety (Explosives) may from time to time prescribe, in writing, notwithstanding any other term of licence.
7. Outside buildings and works of Class A shall comprise any footpath, lightly used road (that is a road used by more than 20 and fewer than 500 vehicles every 24 hours) and waterway. A waterway shall not include a waterway navigated by no more than 20 persons every 24 hours.
8. Outside buildings and works of Class B shall comprise any minor road (that is a road used by more than 500 vehicles and fewer than 10,000 vehicles every 24 hours) railway line, aerodrome, dock, pier, jetty, river wall, sea wall, reservoir.
9. Outside works of Class C shall comprise any major road (that is a road used by more than 10,000 vehicles every 24 hours) and place of public resort.
10. Outside buildings and works of Class D shall comprise any dwelling, retail shop, government and public buildings, church, college, chapel, school, hospital, theatre, cinema or other building where the public are accustomed to assemble, motorway, caravan site for which planning permission for this use has been granted and on which is located an occupied caravan for a total period in excess of 28 days in any one calendar year, factory, building or works used for the storage in bulk of petroleum spirit, gas or other inflammable substances, building or works used for the storage or manufacture of explosives or of articles which contain explosives.
11. Outside buildings and works of Class E shall comprise any of the buildings and works of Class D defined above and which are of vulnerable construction that is to say:
    1. Buildings of more than three stories or 12 m in height constructed with continuous non-load bearing curtain walling with individual glazed or frangible panels larger than 1.5 m2 and extending over more than 50% or 120 m2 of the surface of any elevation.
    2. Buildings of more than three stories or 12 m in height with solid walls and individual glass panes or frangible panels larger than 1.5 m2 and extending over at least 50% or 120 m2 of any elevation.
    3. Buildings of more than 400 m2 plan area with continuous or individual glazing panes larger than 1.5 m2 extending over at least 50% or 120 m2 of the plan area.
    4. Any other structures that may be susceptible to disproportionate damage (eg progressive collapse).
12. Where in the Building Schedule there is a reference to a compartment this shall be taken to be a reference to a space within that building or work separated from the remaining space by such construction as will prevent explosion or fire within it communicating to explosives, or causing serious personal injury to persons, in the remaining space.
13. The licensee shall at all times have control of the operations covered by this licence to the extent necessary to ensure compliance with its Terms.
14. A copy of the relevant part of the Building Schedule (or the information contained therein) shall be posted or otherwise made available in each building, room or place to which it applies.
15. Before each building covered by this licence is brought into use for the first time, the licensee shall obtain the written agreement of one of HM Inspectors of Health and Safety (Explosives) to the commencement of its use.
16. The Licensee shall, within 28 days of this licence being granted, forward to the Health and Safety Executive a copy of the plan required to be given to the local planning authority by Regulation 5(6) of the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005.