Apply for a Trade Waste Consent - Food Business

If your business is registered as a food premises, for example a restaurant, cafe, takeaway shop, you need a trade waste consent.

Food businesses typically produce wastewater containing Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG), which can solidify and block sewers.

The Trade Waste consent outlines the conditions your business must comply with, including how trade waste must be pre-treated before it's discharged into the sewer system.

What's trade waste?

Trade Waste is commercial and industrial liquid waste that is discharged into our wastewater network for treatment.

What you'll need to supply

You'll need:

  • contact details for your organisation
  • your existing trade waste consent number, if applicable
  • an electronic copy of your site plan, showing the location of all process areas, pre-treatment devices, hazardous goods storage, trade waste drains, stormwater drains, grease trap / converter, emergency spill containment device, domestic wastewater drains.

Online

Step 1.Have your details ready

You'll need:

  • contact details for your organisation
  • your existing trade waste consent number, if applicable
  • an electronic copy of your site plan, showing the location of all process areas, pre-treatment devices, hazardous goods storage, trade waste drains, stormwater drains, grease trap / converter, emergency spill containment device, domestic wastewater drains.

Step 2.Apply online 

Apply online

By email

Step 1.Have your details ready

You'll need:

  • contact details for your organisation
  • your existing trade waste consent number, if applicable
  • an electronic copy of your site plan, showing the location of all process areas, pre-treatment devices, hazardous goods storage, trade waste drains, stormwater drains, grease trap / converter, emergency spill containment device, domestic wastewater drains.

Step 2.Download and complete the form

Download the form

Step 3.Email your form to Council

Scan and email your application to enquiries@horowhenua.govt.nz. 

In person

Step 1.Have your details ready

You'll need:

  • contact details for your organisation
  • your existing trade waste consent number, if applicable
  • a copy of your site plan, showing the location of all process areas, pre-treatment devices, hazardous goods storage, trade waste drains, stormwater drains, grease trap / converter, emergency spill containment device, domestic wastewater drains.

Step 2.Download and complete the form

Download the form

Step 3.Visit your nearest Council Office

Pop into your nearest Council Office with your completed application form:

  • Levin (Main Office), 126 Oxford Street, Levin, open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday (except Wednesdays), and Wednesdays 9.30am to 5pm. Closed on weekends and public holidays.
  • Foxton Service Centre, 92 Main Street, Foxton, open 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 3pm Saturday to Sunday (closed public holidays).
  • Shannon Service Centre, Plimmer Terrace, Shannon, open 1pm to 5pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 12 noon on the first Saturday of the month (closed on Sundays and public holidays).

We'll contact you if we need more information. Otherwise, we'll send you your consent once we've approved it.

Contact Us

Phone

(06) 366 0999

Email

enquiries@horowhenua.govt.nz

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