Complaint outcomes: Environment and waste

This section covers complaints about:

• environmental health such as,
  • abandoned vehicles
  • food handling
  • health and safety
  • infectious disease
  • privately-owned derelict properties
  • filthy and verminous properties
  • infestation of pests or vermin
  • smells, smoke and dust nuisance

• waste management such as,
  • refuse collections
  • council amenities (rubbish tips)
  • recycling
  • street cleaning
  • collection and disposal of non-domestic waste

• environmental protection such as,
  • coastal defences
  • soil erosion
  • any environmental protection activity except trees (see under planning).

Recent cases in this category are shown below.

Lancashire County Council (05C11620)
The combined failings of Lancashire County Council and two other public bodies allowed illegal waste activities to go unchecked over a seven-year period with devastating effect.

21 January 2010

Rossendale Borough Council (05C09690)
The combined failings of Rossendale Borough Council and two other public bodies allowed illegal waste activities to go unchecked over a seven-year period with devastating effect.

21 January 2010

London Borough of Lewisham (08 001 152)
The Council took away and destroyed a man’s car with no proper legal basis or justification.

25 August 2009

London Borough of Ealing (08 012 476)
The Council wrongly destroyed a woman’s car that was in a car park outside her home.

20 July 2009

Oxfordshire County Council (07B05001)
A decision to approve an application to fill a lake with waste and ash slurry was not flawed.

16 July 2009