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.
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.
Community Services
Our Community Services team deals with:
Engineering
Our Engineering team deals with:
