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Environmental Health Service Enforcement Policy
Meeting: 10/07/2017 - Cabinet (Item 5)
5 Environmental Health Service Enforcement Policy PDF 118 KB
(Cabinet Decision)
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The Assistant Director, Environment and Place, submitted a report which recommended approval of an updated Environmental Health Service Enforcement Policy.
The Environmental Health Service Enforcement Policy covered a range of enforcement activities, including food safety, health and safety, environmental protection (air, water, and land), stray dogs and pest control. The policy formed part of an umbrella corporate policy, which covered all enforcement activities carried out by the council, and reflected the principles of the 2014 Regulators Code. Adopting the policy would help to ensure that the council continued to carry out enforcement activities in a fair, proportionate and consistent manner.
Under rule 13.3 of the council’s constitution, this item was agreed without being called for discussion.
RESOLVED that:
1. The revised Environmental Health Service Enforcement Policy is approved, as attached at appendix 1 to the report, and;
2. In future, in consultation with the Lead Member for Environment and Equalities, the Director of Operational Services, the Assistant Director Environment and Place and the Chief Legal Officer, to review and update the council’s Environmental Health Service Enforcement Policy on an ongoing basis as and when necessary, in response to legislative changes, developing best practice and revised statutory guidance.
The reason for this decision was:
1. To ensure that enforcement action by the Environmental Health Service continues to be undertaken in a fair, proportionate and consistent manner.
2. To provide evidence to courts, defendants, businesses and the public that the Environmental Health Service undertakes its enforcement activities in accordance with an approved framework.
3. To incorporate the principles set out in the Regulators Code which came into statutory effect in April 2014 to provide a clear, flexible and principles-based framework for how regulators should engage with those they regulate.
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