Scrap Metal Dealer Public Register

The BVSF have received today, with grateful thanks to the BMRA, the following information.
 
The latest scrap metal dealer public register spreadsheets for England and Wales can now be downloaded from the EA Opendata web page, www.geostore.com/environment-agency Search for “scrap”, select the final “Other” column button, and download. You get a compressed (zip) folder containing the two spreadsheets. We are advised that they ought to be updated weekly and that potentially the new data is frozen at the end of Wednesday and uploaded to the public register by the following Monday; We have not been informed at what stage the spreadsheets are fixed.

Be aware that there are still “issues” with local authorities’ data. Some that have previously published figures for licences have dropped off the plot completely, and others have lost substantial numbers of previously-published licences. EA staff are trying to spot such issues and resolve them before they go live, and their techies are working on it, but it’s all far from reliable!


There are also still a lot of authorities missing from the register, which is probably mainly a local authority admin problem rather than an issue with the register. However, we are advised that some are having problems with getting data out in the right format and as a consequence have had data rejections.

Kind regards

Roger West

Secretary General.