Environmental Protection
This section contains information and advice on a wide-range of topics for both consumers and businesses.
COVID-19 Service Update
The following services have altered the way they work or the service they deliver.
Environmental Health
Our Officers are currently working agilely from home to reduce non-essential travel. To reduce the risk of infection to residents and themselves, should they be required to enter into domestic premises, they will be expect you to undertake certain measures beforehand. Such as opening windows in rooms to be investigated, doors to permit them ‘free access’ without touching handles and doors etc.
Priority is being given to -
- Public Health Act Funerals
- Drainage complaints (blocked/defective or overflowing drains) etc.
- Serious and hazardous fly tipped waste.
Where possible requests for service will be initially investigated using telephone information and correspondence undertaken via email. Additional information such as photographs may be requested to assist in the assessment and investigation of a request for service. In circumstances where a visit outside a premise can be undertaken we would ask that all social distancing and good hygiene guidance is followed.
Pest Control
Pest Control officers are currently working agilely from home to reduce non-essential travel. To avoid the risk of infection to residents and themselves, they are not entering inside domestic properties and so are not able to respond to all requests for a pest control treatment.
As a result, they will treat:
- Rats and/or mice in Gardens and Sheds etc. where these can be accessed without entering inside the property.
- Where rat and mice activity is inside the property, home bait suitable for use by the occupier will be supplied following social distancing guidance. Advice and guidance on how and where to use this bait, to have the best results, will be provided via a telephone consultation and subsequently at the time of visit.
- Appointments will only be provided in the afternoon to enable officers to undertake telephone consultations.
They are unable to treat domestic premises for:
- Fleas
- Cockroaches
- Bedbugs