This Week at theEHP: No 85

by | Mar 1, 2013 | This Week at theEHP |

This Week at theEHP: No 85

Welcome to This Week at theEHP, a summary of the recent articles to appear on theEHP.com.

This week at theEHP we report on prosecutions and a RPT Decision.

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Our recent Statistical Release has been updated with data on 62 prosecutions from 4 local authorities. Notable changes include:

  • Caerphilly County Borough Council have carried out the most number of prosecutions (36).
  • The majority of Environmental Health prosecution occur in Environmental Protection (65) and Housing (62).

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Environmental Protection

Environmental Protection: Business prosecuted for burning commercial waste
Hull City Council’s Environmental Neighbourhood Nuisance Team have prosecuted a business for burning commercial waste and causing dark smoke.

Environmental Protection: Resident prosecuted for failing to comply with notice
A Hull resident has been convicted of failing to comply with a legal notice after waste was found by Hull City Council street cleansing team on 16 July 2012.

Environmental Protection: Man fined for fly-tipping
A Llanelli man has been fined £295 by the courts for fly-tipping in a back lane. Steven Jones was also ordered to pay £641.38 prosecution costs and a £15 victim surcharge by Carmarthen magistrates.

Food Safety

Food Safety: Pub fined £3,000 for hygiene offences
A Cowbridge pub has been fined £3,000 for six food hygiene offences, after an investigation by the Vale council’s environmental health team.

Food Safety: Powys man fined for operating unlicensed slaughterhouse
A Radnorshire man has been ordered to pay over £6,000 after pleading guilty to food hygiene offences and animal by-product offences, including operating an illegal slaughterhouse, in a prosecution led by Powys County Council.

Food Safety: Hotelier guilty of hygiene offences
A local hotelier has been fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £2,000 costs for breaching food hygiene regulations. Mr Robert Setchell of The Nyton in Barton Road, Ely admitted five breaches of The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 last week at Cambridge Magistrates.

Housing

Housing: Hastings Gets Tough On Bad Landlord
Hastings Borough Council has successfully prosecuted a landlord for failing to comply with an ‘Improvement Notice’ at property he owns in Braybooke Road, Hastings.

Housing: Newport landlord’s sentence upheld
A landlord had a fine of £12,500 upheld after he abandoned an appeal against his conviction for failing to license a house in multiple occupation (HMO).

 

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RPT Decisions

RPT Decision: Interim Management Order (BIR/17UD/HMV/2012/0004 & BIR/17UD/HXO/2012/0001)
This case relates to an appeal against the revocation of an HMO License and an appeal against an IMO issued by Chesterfield Borough Council. The Panel confirmed the revocation and the IMO.

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