Light industrial classification

Light industrial activity classes, descriptions and standard requirements.

Light Type A

• Industries shall not generate excessive noise.
• Industries shall not accommodate stacks or chimneys, thus producing no gaseous emissions.
• Industries shall not discharge industrial effluent apart from sewage, kitchen waters and non-toxic solid wastes.
• Industries shall not use any raw materials which are toxic and hazardous, and therefore will not produce any scheduled wastes.
• Industries shall have height restrictions determined by the Local Authority.
• Industries shall use electricity and gas as fuels.
• Industries shall not use any radioactive material and scheduled wastes.

Note: Light industries (Type A) shall not produce any industrial emissions and significant discharges.

Light Type B

• Industries shall not generate excessive noise.
• Industries shall not accommodate stacks or chimneys, thus producing no gaseous emissions.
• Industries shall not use any raw materials or produce any scheduled wastes.
• Industries shall produce industrial effluent that can be treated on site before being discharged to meet Standard A or B of the Environmental Quality (Sewage and Industrial Effluent) Regulation 1979, depending on the site.
• Compatibility in industrial mixing, e.g. between food-based industries and leather-based industries.
• Industries shall not use any radioactive material and scheduled wastes.

Note: Industrial effluent discharge and gaseous emissions shall meet the relevant Environmental Quality Regulations as stipulated in the Environmental Quality Act 1974.

Type A Industry Examples

• Handicraft spinning weaving.
• Manufacture of made-up textile goods except wearing apparel.
• Clothing factories.
• Custom tailoring and dress making.
• Miscellaneous wearing apparel, not elsewhere classified.
• Manufacture of wooden and cane containers and small cane ware.
• Manufacture of wood and cork products n.e.c.
• Manufacture of brooms, brushes and mops.
• Umbrella making.

Type B Industry Examples

• Tea factories.
• Natural fiber spinning and weaving mills.
• Rattan processing including splitting.
• Cordage, rope and twine industries.
• Manufacture of products of leather and leather substitutes except footwear and wearing apparel.
• Manufacture of footwear, except vulcanized or moulded rubber or plastic footwear.
• Manufacture of containers and boxes of paper and paperboard; packaging of pharmaceutical products.