Public Health: Swimming in the River Thames can carry a risk of gastrointestinal illness
A new report published by Public Health England (PHE) shows that swimming in the River Thames can carry a risk of gastrointestinal illness.
Housing: Shelter – Volatile rental market is damaging childhoods
A new report from Shelter claims to have uncovered the damaging impact of a childhood spent in England’s volatile private rental market.
Housing: Private housing sector efffective strategies & interventions published
The CIEH and the University of Greenwich have published a professional guidance document that draws together a range of methods and good practice in adding to the environmental health and housing evidence base.
BS 5839-1:2013 Fire detection and fire alarm systems for buildings.
BS 5839-1:2013 provides recommendations for the planning, design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of fire detection and fire alarm systems in and around non-domestic buildings.
BS 5839-8:2013 Fire detection and fire alarm systems for buildings.
BS 5839-8:2013 gives recommendations for the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of voice alarm systems which automatically broadcast speech or warning tones, in response to signals from their associated fire detection and fire alarm systems.
Housing: Case Summary – Islington LBC v Unite Group Plc
This Case Summary outlines a recent judgement that considered whether a five-storey block of purpose built self-contained flats required a HMO licence. The building contained a shop to the ground floor and a number of self contained flats in multiple occupation to the upper four floors (by Mike Warren).
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