Environmental Protection: Environmental Offences Guideline Consultation
New proposals for how environmental offenders like fly-tippers should be sentenced have been launched today by the Sentencing Council.
New proposals for how environmental offenders like fly-tippers should be sentenced have been launched today by the Sentencing Council.
The Government has announced plans to begin a major cut back of health and safety red tape as early as January 2012. It will begin an immediate consultation on the abolition of large numbers of health and safety regulations and intents to have removed the first rules from the statute book within a few months.
Newham could become the first borough in the country to license all private landlords. The east London council has just started a 10-week consultation. Councillors will then consider giving it the green light.
Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today announced plans to speed up the process for evicting persistent ‘neighbours from hell’ from their homes when all other efforts to curb their anti-social behaviour have failed.