Environment

One of our key aims is to develop healthy and safe communities with a good quality environment.

To help achieve this we carry out a wide range of functions aimed at protecting and promoting the health of people living and working within the Wychavon district.

Flood Advice

Insurance Advice for Flood Affected Households

Any residents experiencing flood damage should contact their insurers as soon as possible, to get advice and financial support. Take photos of your damaged belongings.

If you have been approached by someone offering to help you fill out your insurance claim please read these advice information sheets.

Insurance Advice (72.85 KB)
Insurance Advice Letter (53.09 KB)

Environmental Health

What we do:

Promoting health and healthy lifestyles through training, enforcement of smoking legislation, delivery of healthy lifestyle programmes for children and families, working in schools and attending many public events promoting ‘5 a day’ and smoking cessation messages
Inspection and audit of over 1000 food businesses (from large manufacturers where an issue will have national implications, to small local retail outlets) looking at their food safety and hygiene issues.
Inspection of workplaces to advise on and enforce health and safety at work legislation
Investigation of work related fatalities and major accidents
Participation in national health and safety at work campaigns (asbestos, slips and trips, manual handling etc)
Provision of advice to food businesses on compliance with food safety and health and safety requirements
Sampling at point of sale to ensure that food is safe to eat
Responding to complaints from members of the public regarding the safety and quality of food
Responding to complaints from members of the public nationwide regarding safety and quality of food manufactured and produced in Wychavon
Infectious diseases and illness caused by food; control of food poisoning etc outbreaks.
Review and assessment of air quality;
Contaminated land – requests for public information, investigations, inspections
Domestic drainage (rural non-mains drainage, private sewers & drains)
Industrial pollution – “permitting” and inspection of industrial polluting processes;
Investigation of nuisance complaints / public health issues (nuisance noise from animals, commercial sources, construction, entertainment, intruder alarms, neighbour noise, vehicle alarms etc: nuisance from smoke, odours, dog fouling, defective sewerage systems: dealing with filthy and verminous persons and premises, paupers burials, exhumations etc);
Dog warden services including the seizure of dogs, dealing with fouling on public land, stray dogs
Provision of pest control services (rats, mice, wasps etc);
Providing professional advice on planning and licensing applications;
Sampling private water supplies to ensure that the water is safe to drink;
Licensing: administration and enforcement in respect of...acupuncture, tattooing, ear-piercing & electrolysis, animal boarding (cats and dogs), breeding of animals (dogs), caravan sites, cinemas, club premises certificates, community premises licences, dangerous wild animals, gambling premises, game dealers, horse riding establishments, hackney carriage (taxi), private hire vehicles/ drivers & operators, indoor sports entertainment, late night refreshment houses, lotteries (raffles), motor salvage operators, music and dancing (public entertainment), personal licences for the sale of alcohol, pet shops, premises licences, scrap metal dealers, sex establishments, street collection permits, street trading, Sunday trading, temporary event notices, theatres and zoos.