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Annexure

Annexure I: Application Form
Annexure II: Classification of Zones
Annexure III: Zone/ ward classification
Annexure IV: List of Trades Requiring Registration with the Labour Department
Annexure V: List of Trades Requiring an Environment Protection Licence
Annexure VI: Obtaining a Machinery Permit

Annexure I: Application Form    

 

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Annexure II: Classification of Zones

S.No

Zone

Zone Number

1

Special Primary Residential Zone

1

2

Primary Residential Zone

2

3

Special Mixed Residential Zone

3

4

Sea Front Zone

4

5

Mixed Development Zone

5

6

Port Related Activity Zone

6

7

Commercial Zone

7

8

Concentrated Development Zone

8

9

Public Open Spaces

9

10

Development Guide Plan Area 1

10

11

Development Guide Plan Area 2

11

12

Cemetery

12

13

Water Bodies

13

 

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Annexure III: Zone/ ward classification
 

S.No Municipal Ward Zone Number   S.No Municipal Ward Zone Number
1 Mattakkuliya 4,6   25 Panchikawatta 7,8
2 Modara 4,6   26 Maradana 7,8
3 Mahawatta 6   27 Maligakanda 7,8
4 Aluth Mawatha 4,6   28 Maligawatta East 7
5 Lunupokuna 6,8   29 Dematagoda 7
6 Bloemendahl 6   30 Wanathmulla 7
7 Kotahena East 6   31 Kuppiyawatta East 7
8 Kotahena West 6,8   32 Kuppiyawatta West 7
9 Kochikade North 6,8   33 Borella North 7
10 Ginthupitiya 8   34 Narahenpita 1,2,3,5
11 Masangasweediya 8   35 Borella South 1,3,7
12 New Bazaar 6,8   36 Cinnamon Gardens 1,7,8,10
13 Grandpass North 6,7   37 Kollupitiya 1,4,5,8
14 Grandpass South 6,7   38 Bambalapitiya 1,4,5
15 Maligawatta West 6,7   39 Milagiriya 1,4,5
16 Aluthkadde East 7,8   40 Thimbirigasyaya 1,2,3,10

17

Aluthkadde West

8

 

41

Kirula

2,5

18

Kehelwatta

8

 

42

Havelock Town

1,2,3,4,5

19

Kochikade South

8

 

43

Wellawatta North

2,4,5

20

Fort

6,8,11

 

44

Kirulapone

2,5

21

Kompannaweediya

8,11

 

45

Pamankada East

2,5

22

Wekanda

8,11

 

46

Pamankada West

2,5

23

Hunupitiya

8,11

 

47

Wellawatta South

4,5

24

Suduwella

8,11

 

 

 

 

The exact zone in which your trade falls will be dependent on the specific location of the same and clarification in this regard may be sought from the City Planning Division of the Colombo Municipal Council.

A Map of Colombo clearly delineating the various zones is provided overleaf for reference.


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Annexure III: List of Trades Requiring Registration with the Labour Department
 

S.No.

Trade requiring registration with the Labour Department

1

Curing and Grading of Plumbago

2

Manufacture of Manure

3

Manufacture of tiles, concrete pipes or other concrete materials

4

Keeping an injector pump servicing station

5

Keeping an establishment in which tyres are rebuilt or retreated

6

Cutting and polishing Gems and Diamonds (by gem dealers)

7

Keeping a weaving mill where mechanical power is used

8

Milling of flour of curry stuffs

9

Manufacture of Rubber goods

10

Grinding bones by Machinery

11

Manufacture or storing of polythene celluloid perse-petcs

12

Sawing of timber by the employment of steam water or mechanical power or electrical power

13

Manufacture of Coconut oil by the use of machinery

14

Manufacture of Gingerly oil by the use of machinery

15

Manufacture and/or storing of textile

16

Manufacture of matches

17

Manufacture of Cigarettes

18

Manufacture and/or storing and/or selling Beedies and/or cigars

19

Manufacture of coir

20

Manufacture of confectionery

21

Manufacture of Boats & Barges

22

Manufacture of Repairing Wooden Chests

23

Keeping and establishment in which motor vehicles are re-repaired

24

Keeping a printing press where mechanical power is used (number of employees of which is more than 25)

25

Manufacture of paint and/or varnish

26

Manufacture and/or storing Coir or Kapok mattresses or pillows or cushions

27

Keeping and establishment for stitching garments by using mechanical or electrical power

28

Keeping an establishment where shirt collars and cuff are tucked

29

Keeping an establishment other than a garage where mechanical power is used and in which electro plating is done

30

Manufacture, store or selling of Gas/Coal gas

31

Manufacture of floor polish

32

Running a tannery

33

Manufacturing and selling of herbal drink

34

Manufacture of sago

35

manufacture of gun powder

36

Manufacture of fire works

37

Manufacture and or storing of papadam

38

manufacture and/or storing and/or selling paints and varnish

39

Running a hand operating press

40

Manufacture and or storing of batteries

41

Manufacture of camphor

42

Manufacture and/or storing of jaggary

43

Running an establishment for dry cleaning clothes

44

Running an establishment for vulcanising tyres or tubes (except self-employment)

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Annexure V: List of Trades Requiring an Environment Protection Licence
 

S.No.

Trade

 

PART A

1.        

Chemicals manufacturing or formulating or repacking industries.

2.        

Soaps, detergents, softener or any other cleansing preparations manufacturing industries having a production capacity of 1,000 kilograms per day or more.

3.        

Bulk petroleum liquid or liquefied petroleum gas storage or filling facilities having a total capacity of 150 or more metric tons excluding vehicle fuel filling stations.

4.        

Industries involved in the use of fibreglass as a raw material where 10 or more workers are employed.

5.        

Synthetic rubber, natural rubber manufacturing or processing or rubber based industries excluding industries which manufacture less than 100 kilograms of ribbed smoke rubber sheets per day.

6.        

Activated carbon or carbon black manufacturing industries or charcoal manufacturing industries having a production capacity of one or more metric ton per batch.

7.        

Industries involved in manufacturing extracting or formulating Ayurvedic, Indigenous medicinal products where 25 or more workers are employed.

8.        

Chemical fertiliser manufacturing, formulating, processing or repacking Industries.

9.        

Pesticides, insecticides, fungicides and herbicides manufacturing, formulating or repacking industries.

10.    

Oil (mineral oil or petroleum) refineries.

11.    

Dye and dye intermediate manufacturing or formulating industries.

12.    

Paints (emulsion or enamel), inks, pigments, varnish, polish manufacturing or formulating industries.

13.    

Petrochemical (basic or intermediates) manufacturing or formulating industries.

14.    

Industrial gas manufacturing, processing or refilling industries.

15.    

Asphalt processing plants.

16.    

Industries involved in the manufacture of polymers or polymer based products (i.e. polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyurethane, polypropylene, polyester, nylon, polystyrene, resins, fibreglass or other man made fibres etc.) or polymer or polymer based products, recycling industries.

17.    

All types of tyres, tubes manufacturing or tyre retreading industries.

18.    

Industries involved in manufacturing or reconditioning of batteries.

19.    

Any industry involved in the use of asbestos fibres as a raw material.

20.    

Industries involved in manufacturing, extracting or formulating pharmaceuticals or cosmetic products including intermediates.

21.    

Adhesives manufacturing industries excluding natural gums.

22.    

Match sticks manufacturing industries and explosives manufacturing or formulating industries.

23.    

Batik industries where 10 or more workers are employed.

24.    

Textile processing (i.e. bleaching, dyeing, printing) industries or garment washing industries or textile sand blasting industries or commercial laundries where 10 or more workers are employed.

25.    

Tanneries.

26.    

Lather finishing industries having effluent generating operations.

27.    

Jute processing industries.

28.    

Industries involved in bleaching or dyeing of natural fibre or natural fibre based industries where 25 or more workers are employed.

29.    

Power looms having 25 or more machines or power looms with sizing activities.

30.    

Sugar manufacturing industries or sugar refineries.

31.    

Fermentation industries (Distilleries, Breweries) or alcoholic beverages bottling plants or bottling plants having bottle washing operations.

32.    

Food manufacturing and processing industries including bakery products and confectioneries where 25 or more workers are employed.

33.    

Abattoirs.

34.    

Coconut oil or cinnamon oil extraction industries where 25 or more workers are employed.

35.    

Plants or animal oil/fats extraction industries having production capacity of 10 litres or more per day excluding coconut oil and cinnamon oil extraction industries.

36.    

Instant tea or coffee processing industries.

37.    

Non-alcoholic beverages manufacturing industries where 25 or more workers are employed.

38.    

Desiccated coconut mills or coconut processing industries where 10 or more workers are employed.

39.    

Rice mills having wet process and having a production capacity of 5,000 kilograms or more per day.

40.    

All hatcheries or poultry farms having 2,500 or more birds or piggery, cattle, goats farms having animals 50 or more or having rating* for mixed farming 2,500 or more. *Rating for Mixed Farming = No. of Birds + 50 x (No. of Pigs + No. of Cattle + No. of Goats)

41.    

Animal feed manufacturing industries having a capacity of 25 or more metric tons per day.

42.    

Cigarettes or other tobacco products manufacturing industries where 50 or more workers are employed.

43.    

Industries involved in surface treatment of metal or plastic including electroplating, galvanising and powder coating industries.

44.    

Iron and steel mills.

45.    

Foundries with any type of furnaces.

46.    

Non-ferrous metal processing industries including secondary process, smelting and recovery of metals.

47.    

Metal fabricating industries or machinery, machinery parts or hardware items or electrical and electronic goods and equipment manufacturing or assembling industries where 24 or more workers are employed. (Including lathe workshops, welding shops, spray painting industries).

48.    

Cement industries (clinker grinding, manufacturing or repacking).

49.    

Concrete batching plants having a production capacity of 50 or more cubic meters per day.

50.    

Glass or glass based product manufacturing industries.

51.    

Lime kilns having a production capacity of 20 or more metric tons per day.

52.    

Ceramic industries where more than 25 or more workers are employed.

53.    

Mechanised mining activities with multi bore hole blasting or single bore hole blasting activities with production capacity having 600 or more cubic meters per month.

54.    

Crushing or processing of non-metallic minerals (i.e. limestone, dolomite, apatite, rock phosphate, sand stone, feldspar, quartz, ilmenite, rutile, zircon, mica, graphite, kaolin, etc) excluding lime shell and granite crushing activities.

55.    

Granite boulders making or processing industries (extracting, blasting, slicing, polishing).

56.    

Granite crushing (Metal crushing) industries having a total production capacity of 25 or more cubic meters per day.

57.    

Common wastewater (industrial or sewage) treatment plants.

58.    

Incinerators having a feeding capacity of 5 or more metric tons per day.

59.    

Water treatment plants having a treatment capacity of 10,000 or more cubic meters per day.

60.    

Municipal solid waste and other solid waste composting plants having a capacity or 10 or more metric tons per day.

61.    

Solid waste recovery/recycling or processing plants having a capacity of 10 or more metric tons per day.

62.    

Solid waste disposal facility having a disposal capacity of 10 or more metric tons per day.

63.    

All toxic and hazardous waste treatment facility or disposal facilities or recycling/recovering or storage facilities.

64.    

Industries involved in chemical treatment and preservation of wood excluding Boron treatment.

65.    

Saw mills having a milling capacity of 50 or more cubic meters per day or wood based industries where 25 or more workers are employed.

66.    

Hotels, guest houses, rest houses having 20 or more rooms.

67.    

Hostels and similar dwelling places where occupancy level is exceeding 200 or more.

68.    

Health care service centres generating infectious wastes, including medical laboratories and research centres.

69.    

Automobile or bicycle manufacturing or assembling industries.

70.    

Vehicles service stations or container yards having vehicle service activities excluding three wheeler and motor cycles services and interior cleaning.

71.    

Railway workshops or all bus depots having vehicle servicing activities.

72.    

All vehicle emission testing centres.

73.    

Electrical power generating utilities excluding standby generators and hydro or solar or wind power generation.

74.    

Printing presses with lead smelting o newspaper printing or printing process which generates wastewater or colour photographs processing centres.

75.    

Paper and Pulp Industries or corrugated cartons manufacturing industries.

76.    

Any industry where 200 or more workers per shift are employed.

77.    

Industrial Estates approved under the part IVC of the National environmental Act including Katunayake and Biyagama Export processing Zones.

78.    

Zoological gardens.

79.    

Transmission towers providing facilities for telecommunication and broadcasting.

80.    

Any industry not included above which discharges 10 or more cubic meters of wastewater per day or using toxic chemicals in its process.

 

PART B

1.        

Soaps, detergents, softener or any other cleansing preparations manufacturing industries having a production capacity less than 1,000 kilograms per day.

2.        

Bulk petroleum liquid storage facilities excluding filling stations or liquefied petroleum gas (LP Gas) storage or filling facilities having a total capacity less than 150 metric tons.

3.        

Industries involved in the use of fibre glass as a raw material where less than 10 workers are employed.

4.        

Ribbed smoke rubber sheet manufacturing industries having a production capacity of more than 50 kilograms and less than 100 kilograms per day.

5.        

Activated carbon or carbon black manufacturing industries or charcoal manufacturing industries having a production capacity less than one metric ton per batch.

6.        

Industries involved in manufacturing, extracting or formulating Ayurvedic, indigenous medicinal products where more than 10 workers and less than 25 workers are employed.

7.        

Batik industries where less than 10 workers are employed.

8.        

Commercial laundries where less than 10 workers are employed.

9.        

Leather finishing industries having dry process operations.

10.    

Natural fibre based industries where less than 25 workers are employed excluding industries involved in bleaching or dyeing of natural fibre.

11.    

Power looms having less than 25 machines.

12.    

Hand Looms or knitting or embroidery industry having more than 10 looms.

13.    

Garment industries where 25 or more workers and less than 200 workers per shift are employed.

14.    

Sugar cane based industries excluding sugar factories of sugar refineries.

15.    

Food manufacturing and processing industries including bakery products and confectioneries where 5 or more workers and less than 25 workers are employed.

16.    

Cinnamon oil extracting industry where less than 25 workers are employed.

17.    

Rice mills having wet process with a production capacity of less than 5,000 kilograms per day.

18.    

Grinding mills having production capacity of more than 1,000 kilograms per month.

19.    

Poultry farms have 250 or more and less than 2,500 birds or piggery, cattle, goats farms having animals 5 or more and less than 50 or having rating * for mixed farming 250 and less than 2,500. * Rating for Mixed Farming = No. of Birds + 50 x (No. of Pigs + No. of Cattle + No. Goats)

20.    

Animals feed manufacturing industries, having a capacity of less than 25 metric tons per day.

21.    

All ice manufacturing industries.

22.    

Metal fabricating industries or machinery, machinery parts or hardware items or electrical and electronic goods and equipment manufacturing or assembling industries where less than 25 workers are employed (including lathe workshop, welding shops, spray painting industries).

23.    

Concrete batching plants having a capacity less than 50 cubic meters per day.

24.    

Single borehole blasting with industrial mining activities using explosives, having a production capacity of less than 600 cubic meters per month.

25.    

Granite crushing (Metal crushing) industries having a total production capacity of less than 25 cubic meters per day excluding manual crushing operations using hand tools.

26.    

Municipal solid waste and other solid waste composting plants (excluding household composting) having a capacity of less than 10 metric tons per day.

27.    

Solid waste recovery/recycling or processing plants having a capacity of less than 10 metric tons per day.

28.    

Solid waste disposal facilities a disposal capacity of less than 10 metric tons per day.

29.    

Hostels and similar dwelling places where occupancy level or 25 or more boarders and less than 200 borders.

30.    

Vehicle repairing and maintaining garages including spray painting or mobile air-conditioning activities.

31.    

Recycling or recovering centres of refrigerants form air-conditioners or refrigerators.

32.    

Three wheeler or motor cycle servicing activities or vehicle interior cleaning activities.

33.    

Any industry not included above which discharges 3 or more and less than 10 cubic meters of industrial processing wastewater per day.

 

PART C

1.        

All vehicle filling stations (liquid petroleum and liquefied petroleum gas).

2.        

Manufacturing of candles where 10 or more workers are employed.

3.        

Coconut oil extraction industries where 10 or more workers and less than 25 workers are employed.

4.        

Non-alcoholic beverages manufacturing industries where 10 or more workers and less than 25 workers are employed.

5.        

Rice mills having dry process operations.

6.        

Grinding mills having production capacity of less than 1,000 kilograms per month.

7.        

Tobacco barns.

8.        

Cinnamon fumigating industries with sulphur fumigation having capacity of 500 or more kilograms per batch.

9.        

Edible salt packing and processing industries.

10.    

Tea factories excluding instant tea processing.

11.    

Concrete pre-cast industries.

12.    

Mechanised cement blocks manufacturing industries.

13.    

Lime kilns having a production capacity of less than 20 metric tons per day.

14.    

Plaster of Paris industries where less than 25 workers are employed.

15.    

Lime shell crushing industries.

16.    

Tile and brick kilns.

17.    

Single borehole blasting with artisanary mining activities using explosives, having capacity of less than 600 cubic meters per month.

18.    

Saw mills having a milling capacity of less than 50 cubic meters per day or industries involved in Boron treatment of wood or timber seasoning.

19.    

Carpentry workshops which use multipurpose carpentry machine or wood based industries where more than 5 workers and less than 25 workers are employed.

20.    

Residential hotels, guest houses, rest houses with 05 or more and less than 20 rooms.

21.    

Vehicle repairing or maintaining garages excluding spray-painting or mobile air-conditioning activities.

22.    

Repairing, maintaining or installation centres of refrigerators and air-conditioners.

23.    

Container yards excluding where vehicle servicing activities are carried out.

24.    

All electrical and electronic goods repairing centre where more than 10 workers are employed.

25.    

Printing presses and later press machines excluding lead smelting.

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Annexure VI: Obtaining a Machinery Permit

Instructions for applying for a  Machinery permit:

§         An application form with a list of all the machineries with capacities and noise levels and supportive documents (noise level test reports) should be submitted at the City Planning Division of the CMC. The application form should be signed by the owner(s) of the industry/ business. The application form is attached overleaf.

§         The following documents need to be attached with the application form to ensure fast processing:

o        Recommendation from the Chief Officer of Fire Brigade, Fire Service Department of CMC, T.B. Jayah Mawatha, Colomo 10

o        Recommendation from the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Public Health Department of CMC, Town Hall, Colombo 7

o        Recommendation from the Chairman, Central Environmental Authority, 104, Robert Gunawardena Mawatha, Battaramula (if not covered by the recommendation of the CMOH)

o        Any other necessary recommendations

o        In case of any change of use/ deviation from the approved building plan for which the Certificate of Conformity is issued, a copy of the Change of Use certificate, new Certificate of Conformity and new approved building plan should be attached

o        In order to facilitate requests for further information, correspondence and in case the permit is to be issued by hand, a Letter of Authorisation should be submitted with:

§         Name of the owner(s) of the business/ trade or the Nominee

§         NIC number of the owner(s) or the Nominee

§         Specimen signature of the owner(s) or the Nominee

§         A processing fee is applicable for each application as follows and is payable to the Revenue section of the Treasurer’s Department:

o        Fee for a new permit: Rs. 500 + GST

o        Fee for renewal of a permit (annual charge): Rs. 250 + GST

§         The receipt of the payment of processing fee should be shown to the receiving counter of the City Planning Division at the time of submission of the application. Processing of the application will be initiated only after the receipt has been duly produced

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