What is a Scrap metal licence?
You will need a Scrap metal licence if you intend to:
- Wholly or partly buy or sell scrap metal. This is regardless of whether the metal is sold in a different form to which it was bought.
- Act as a motor salvage operator.
- Carry out the business from any site within the borough, with a site licence.
- Act as a mobile collector within the borough, with a mobile collector's licence.
Site licence
Licensees who hold a Scrap metal licence must identify all sites and site managers.
The licence allows for the transport of scrap metal between sites for a period of three years.
Collector's licence
A Collector's licence allows for the collection of scrap metal (only in Harrow) for a period of three years.
To operate outside the London Borough of Harrow a separate licence is needed. Businesses cannot hold both types of licence from London Borough of Harrow.
You need to display the licence on any vehicle being used while running the business.
Motor salvage operators
To operate as a motor salvage operator, you must apply for a site licence.
A motor salvage operator is a business that:
- Recovers salvageable parts from motor vehicles for re-use or re-sale. They sell the rest of the vehicle for scrap.
- Buys written-off vehicles and then repairs and sells them off.
- Buys or sells motor vehicles to salvage parts from them or repair them to sell them off.