Environmental Health

Responsible for food hygiene, health and safety at work, nuisance, air quality, cemeteries, noise control, contaminated land, pest control, dog warden service, housing standards, support for home maintenance and repair, and homelessness.

Top Tasks
 

• Find out about cemeteries and crematoria
• Find out about food hygiene ratings for local premises 
• Request a pest control service
• Register your food business
• Find out about caravan and mobile home licensing and standards
• Find out about noise control and nuisance

Please see the links in the left hand menu for further information on the services we provide.

What we do

• Download the booklet Environmental Health - What we do for you (PDF 426K)

Environmental Health delivers a comprehensive range of strategic and responsive services for protecting people's health, housing needs and the environment.

Most of our work derives from the council’s statutory duties for inspection and enforcement of legal requirements. We also provide environmental monitoring, advisory services and information.

Environmental Health Services is managed by:

• Nick Howard - Environmental Health Manager
• Mike Dagger - Private Sector Housing Manager

Latest updates

Dog Fouling

Under The Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996, it is an offence not to clean up after a dog has defecated on public land.

16/05/12

Responsible Dog Ownership

10 easy points to enable you to be a responsible dog owner.

16/05/12

Green burials and coffin alternatives

We recognise that there is increasing interest in greener options concerning burial and cremation. Often the main difficulties the bereaved have is trying to find information on the subject. We have a small “woodland burial” sectio...

14/05/12

Dog Control Orders - Have your say

The council is in the process of declaring Dog Control Orders which will replace previous bye-laws and expand on existing Orders.

14/05/12

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