Preface
Extract from the preface to the first edition (1983)
Acknowledgements
How this book is structured
Part 1 Current environmental health legal structure, process and policies
Chapter 1: Enforcement and compliance framework
The framework for local authority enforcement, operational and health improvement policies
Agencies that work with environmental health professionals
Public health in local government
Mental health and environmental health
Options for obtaining compliance and environmental health interventions
Primary authorities
Alternative interventions
Partnership working
Chapter 2: Common provisions in environmental health legislation
Enforcing authorities
Delegation of authority
Authorisation of officers
Powers of entry
Service of notices by local authorities
Authentication of documents
Information regarding ownerships, etc.
Recording decisions
Chapter 3: Professional practice
Professional practice
Surveillance
Chapter 4: Legal proceedings
Preparing a case (plaintiff or appellant)
Witnesses
Court procedure
In court
Human rights and environmental health
Part 2 Environmental protection
Chapter 1: Air quality
Height of chimneys serving furnaces
Height of chimneys not serving furnaces
Control of grit and dust from furnaces
Measurement of grit and dust from furnaces
Prohibition of dark smoke, etc., from chimneys
Prohibition of dark smoke, etc., from industrial and trade premises (other than from chimneys, e.g. trade bonfires)
Smoke control areas
Burning of crop residues
Cable burning
Obtaining information about atmospheric pollution
Local authority reviews of air quality
Air quality management areas (AQMAs)
Chapter 2: Environmental damage and contaminated land
The identification and remediation of contaminated land
Chapter 3: Environmental permitting
Permitting of activities by local authorities
Chapter 4: Noise
Noise nuisances, noisy parties and noise in the street
Consents for the use of loudspeakers in streets
Noise from construction sites
Noise from certain premises at night
Seizure of equipment used to make noise unlawfully
Audible alarm notification areas
Part 3 Food safety and food standards
Food control and food hygiene legislation
Registration of food business establishments
Approval of product-specific establishments
Registration and approval of animal by-product plants
Hygiene improvement notices
Hygiene prohibition orders
Hygiene emergency prohibition notices and orders
Remedial action notices and detention notices
Detention and seizure of food
Imported food – official controls on feed and food of non-animal origin from third countries
Sampling of food for analysis and examination
Closure notices on mollusc-harvesting areas
Food safety
Food additives
Food information
Part 4 Health and safety
General procedural provisions
Improvement and prohibition notices
Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences
Notification of cooling towers and evaporative condensers
Seizure of dangerous articles or substances
Part 5 Housing and health
Chapter 1: Structure of the law dealing with housing conditions and their enforcement
General procedural provisions
Housing conditions: the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS)
Fitness for human habitation
Housing conditions for accommodation of the homeless
Energy efficiency in private rented property
Prescribed smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020
Chapter 2: Enforcement options
General approach to enforcement
Fixed penalty notices
Renewal areas
Improvement notices
Prohibition orders
Hazard awareness notices
Notice of emergency remedial action
Emergency prohibition orders
Defective premises
Overcrowding notices for dwellings
Means of escape from certain high buildings
Restoration or continuation of supply of water, gas or electricity
Disabled facilities grants
Dangerous buildings
Protection of buildings
Empty dwelling management orders
Ruinous and dilapidated buildings
Demolition orders
Demolition of buildings
Clearance areas (CAs)
Compulsory purchase
Chapter 3: Housing licensing
Selective licensing of residential accommodation
Private landlords’ accreditation schemes
The private rented sector database
Chapter 4: Houses in multiple occupation
Houses in multiple occupation: definitions
Houses in multiple occupation declarations
Licensing of houses in multiple occupation
Designation of areas by local authorities for the additional licensing of HMOs
Interim management orders
Final management orders
Temporary exemption notices for HMOs
Overcrowding notices for HMOs
Chapter 5: Rogue landlords
Banning orders
Database of rogue landlords and property agents
Rent repayment orders
Protection from eviction
Preventing retaliatory eviction
Chapter 6: Temporary accommodation
Control of moveable dwellings (tents, vans and sheds)
Mobile homes and caravan sites
Part 6 Antisocial behaviour
Antisocial behaviour: landlords’ policies and possession procedures
Closure of premises associated with nuisance or disorder, etc.
Community protection notices
Public spaces protection orders
Part 7 Public health
Chapter 1: Animal welfare
Animal welfare licensing
Dangerous wild animals
Riding establishments
Animals (Penalty Notices) Act 2022
Chapter 2: Pest control
Control of rats and mice
Chapter 3: Disease control
Infectious diseases control
Notification of diseases
Local authority powers to prevent spread of infection
Power to order health measures in relation to persons, things and premises (Part 2A orders – England and Wales)
Disinfection or decontamination of things and premises
Cleansing of filthy or verminous premises, articles and persons
Skin piercing and other special treatments
Chapter 4: Dog and horse control
Control of horses
Seizure of stray dogs
Chapter 5: Exhumations
Exhumations
Chapter 6: Hoarding
Hoarding
Chapter 7: Port health
Infectious diseases control – aircraft
Infectious diseases control – trains
Infectious diseases control – ships
Chapter 8: Public health funerals
Public health funerals
Chapter 9: Removal of unauthorised campers
Removal of unauthorised campers
Chapter 10: Sanitation and drainage
General procedural provisions: Public Health Acts 1936 and 1961
General procedural provisions: Building Act 1984
Defective sanitary conveniences
Sanitary conveniences: provision/replacement
Sanitary conveniences at places of entertainment, etc.
Conversion of earth closets, etc., to water closets
Blocked private sewers
Stopped-up drains, private sewers, etc.
Defective and unsatisfactory drainage to existing buildings
Repair of drains, private sewers, etc., by local authorities
Paving of yards and passages
Overflowing and leaking cesspools
Chapter 11: Statutory nuisances
Statutory nuisances
Chapter 12: Waste
Waste on land
Litter offences
Litter abatement orders
Accumulations of rubbish
Removal and disposal of abandoned refuse
Removal of controlled waste on land
Removal of noxious matter
Abandoned trolleys
Abandoned vehicles
Receptacles for commercial and industrial waste
Receptacles for household waste
Licensing of scrap metal dealers
Chapter 13: Water supply
General procedural provisions: Water Industry Act 1991
Control over public water supplies
Control over private water supplies
Water supply for new houses
Closure or restriction of polluted water supply
Part 8 Public safety
Controls over trading on Sundays at large shops
Pleasure boat licensing
Sex establishment licences
Street collections
Street trading
Indexes
List of flow charts
Index