Scrap Metal Dealer Registration

To be a scrap metal dealer, you need to register with your local authority.

We are responsible for keeping a register of "scrap metal dealers" carrying on a business our area. Registrations have to be renewed every three years.

Anyone not registered, but doing the following is committing an offence:

• they have a scrap metal store in Malvern, and trade scrap metal.
• they don't have a scrap metal store but they trade scrap metal and live in Malvern
• they don't have a scrap metal store or live in the area, but they have an office in Malvern Hills district, where a scrap metal business is operated from.

Dealers have to keep records of what they buy and who they buy it from, and what they sell and who to.

Any person wishing to carry on a business in the local authority area if any of the following apply:

• the dealer occupies a place as a scrap metal store in the area
• the dealer does not occupy a place as a scrap metal store but has a usual place of residence in the area
• the dealer does not occupy a place as a scrap metal store but occupies a place for business purposes

Dealers have to keep records of what they buy and who they buy it from, and what they sell and who to.

Read the legislation controlling scrap metal dealers

Applicants must provide the following:

• their full name
• the address of the dealer, or in the case of a company, their registered or principal office
• the address of each place occupied as a scrap metal store, if any
• if the business is carried on without a scrap metal store
• if the business is carried on without a scrap metal store but the applicant occupies a place for the purposes of business, and the address of such a place

The registered dealer must notify the local authority of any changes to these details or if they cease to be a scrap metal dealer.

These details are entered in to a public register.

Yes. This means that you will be able to act as though your application is granted if you have not heard from the local authority by the end of the target completion period

Online facilities are available through the national Business Link website

• Apply to register as a scrap metal dealer
• Tell us about a change to your existing registration as a scrap metal dealer

phone or e-mail us to ask for an application form, or download an application form.  Send the completed form to us at the Licensing Department, Malvern Hills District Council, The Council Offices, Avenue Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3AF

Please contact us, in the first instance.  Contact details are below.

We would always advise that in the event of a complaint the first contact is made with the trader by you - preferably in the form a letter (with proof of delivery). If that has not worked, if you are located in the UK, Consumer Direct will give you advice. From outside the UK contact the UK European Consumer Centre.

Anyone suffering nuisance due to noise, smells or similar because of a commercial premises should contract the Worcestershire Hub  phone number 01684 862151

• British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA)
• International Aluminium Institute
• International Lead Association
• Metal Bulletin