Environmental Health
Environmental Health is about making Peterborough a safe and
pleasant city in which to live, work and visit. We
have specialists that are responsible for the delivery of a
broad range of statutory services that contribute to the promotion
of a healthy and safe environment for residents, visitors and
workers in Peterborough. The service contributes to local
priorities set out in our Community Strategy, through the Local
Area Agreement, and the Corporate Plan.
We take firm but fair regulatory action to protect public
health, the environment and to promote community well being.
Besides enforcing standards relating to food, health and safety and
environmental protection in local shops, businesses and
communities, we respond to many requests for service each year from
the public and businesses.
Clean
We carry out investigations and enforcement to tackle
neighbourhood problems and to protect public health such as:
dog-fouling, pollution, rubbish accumulations, smoke from chimneys
and bonfires, noise complaints and pest infestations.
Safe
We carry out inspections to make sure that businesses know how to comply with the law and to check that they do. We are legally responsible for enforcing a very wide range of legislation including:
- Food hygiene and safety including food poisoning and infectious diseases.
- Health and safety at work.
- Environmental protection and authorised industrial processes.
- Pollution such as noise, air quality, contaminated and rubbish.
- Pest control.
- Stray dogs and dog fouling.
- Smoke free compliance.
The following links take you to detailed pages about our some
of our services.
Further information
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health - www.cieh.org
Food Standards Agency - www.food.gov.uk
Contact information
For further information please contact the relevant team below: