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Complaint Outcomes: Environment and waste archive 2005 to date

 

Kingston upon Hull City C (09 002 665)
The Council wrongly charged care homes for disposing of waste.

06 July 2011

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

Congleton Borough Council (06C10554)
Consistent failure to collect all of a man’s household waste.

29 July 2008

London Borough of Greenwich (07B00346, 07B01442)
Fundamental problems in abandoned cars procedures.

20 February 2008

Coventry City Council (06A15757)
Wrongly destroying a woman’s car after wrongly deciding that it was abandoned.

22 November 2007

Nottinghamshire County Council (05C16686)
Delay in taking action to replace a household waste recycling centre on the edge of a village.

29 March 2007

South Cambridgeshire District Council (05B05334)
When granting permission for new homes without considering issues of noise from an existing factory nearby.

19 March 2007

Epping Forest District Council (03A17164 + 1) & Essex County Council (03A18978 + 1)
The District Council wrongly gave advice that a waste transfer station had an established use, and the County Council granted a licence without taking adequate steps to ensure the advice was soundly based.

28 November 2006

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (04C13282 + 3 others)
Failure to handle an application for garage development properly led to car wash spray nuisance for neighbours.

21 November 2006

Amber Valley Borough Council (05C00620)
No fault found over introduction of skate park or, later, action taken to deal with noise problems.

18 October 2006

Torbay Borough Council (05B09309, 05B13941)
Delay in taking action against caravan site owners for failure to comply with conditions in their site licences.

20 July 2006

Sedgemoor District Council (05B04194)
Failure to investigate complaints of noise from a skittle alley, or enforce planning conditions.

29 June 2006

Breckland District Council (05B02734)
Woman endured seven months' avoidable loss of amenity from skatepark noise as a result of Council faults.

20 June 2006

Weymouth & Portland Borough Council (05B07521)
Failure to investigate complaints about noise from ultra-high pressure washing of vessels at slipways.

11 May 2006

Rossendale Borough Council (04C07580 & 4 others)
The Council failed to take effective enforcement action against a factory causing a noise nuisance.

28 February 2006

Bedford Borough Council (04B16901)
Failure to investigate complaints about nuisance from a model aircraft club, and mishandling a grant of planning permission.

12 January 2006

London Borough of Merton (04B09253)
Delay in dealing with complaints about nuisance from a ventilation system installed without planning permission.

15 December 2005

Plymouth City Council (03B05263)
Faults in Council's management of tenant's operations at Plymouth City Airport, particularly relating to noise

25 October 2005

Plymouth City Council (01B03243 FR)
Continued failure to prevent nuisance and control activities of a flying school at Plymouth Airport by enforcing provisions of the lease.

19 July 2005