Issue - meetings

(Minute 582 refers)

RESOLVED - that the Environmental Health Enforcement Policy as now submitted, be approved.

RECOMMENDED –that the Environmental Health Policy as set out in Essential Reference Paper B of the report now submitted be approved.

The Executive Member for Community Safety and Protection submitted a report seeking to amend the existing Environmental Health Enforcement Policy to ensure that it was in accordance with current legislative requirements and guidance.

The Council’s Enforcement Policy had been approved in 2004, in line with Government guidelines.  The revised Environmental Health policy was supplementary to this policy.  The revision was in response to new legislation and guidelines arising from the Hampton report into regulatory functions and the burdens created by regulation.

In response to a question, the Director of Neighbourhood Services said that the core Enforcement Policy would be reviewed in due course.

The Executive recommended the Environmental Health Enforcement Policy be approved.

RECOMMENDED – that the Environmental Health Enforcement Policy as set out in Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ of the report now submitted, be approved.