Pollution Control

Pollution Control covers the following services:

• Pollution processes
• Air Pollution
• Air handling units
• The Clean Air Act
• Contaminated Land
• Hazardous Substances
• Water Pollution
• HAZCHEM information
• Asbestos
• Cooling Tower notifications

On this page:

• Penalty/Abatement notices
• Construction Information
• Requesting environmental information
• Contact us

Penalty/Abatement notices

Part 3 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requires us to take reasonable steps to investigate and, if appropriate, to take formal action in the event of justified complaints of statutory nuisance.

A Statutory Nuisance in this context can include emissions of smoke, fumes or gases, dust, steam and smell. The emissions must arise from premises and must materially affect the use or enjoyment of other premises.

Typical of complaints of this type are smoke and ash from garden bonfires, smoking chimneys, dust from building and demolition activity and cooking smells from restaurants. The legislation does not allow us to deal with complaints of smells arising from domestic premises.

If satisfied that a complaint of statutory nuisance is justified, an Abatement/Penalty Notice will be served upon the person responsible, occupier or owner of the premises (as appropriate) requiring that the nuisance be abated. Failure to comply with an Abatement/Penalty Notice is an offence and legal proceedings may result. If found guilty of an offence of this type then the maximum fine is £5,000 on domestic premises and £20,000 on commercial premises.

|Back to top

---

Construction Information

The local authority monitors construction activities to minimise pollution caused by noise, dust and other nuisances.

Under section 60 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974, we can take action against construction activities causing noise pollution. Contractors may inform the Council of work to be undertaken, but this does not relieve them of their responsibility to control noise.

Visit our noise control page for more information.

|Back to top

---

Requesting environmental information

You have the right to access various pieces of information about the environment, ranging from levels of air pollution in the borough to the council’s environmental policies.  

You can find information via:

• These webpages
• The contaminated land register – which lists all the sites of contaminated land in the borough
• The pollution control register – which lists the polluting processes in Haringey

If you’re looking for something else you can make an environment information request to:

Email: enforcement@haringey.gov.uk
Tel: 020 8489 5278

If you’d like advice on your request you can speak to a Policy and Enforcement Support Officer on 020 8489 5517

Cost

The information itself is free, although you may be asked to cover the costs of copying and postage. If there is a charge you will be told first.

Refusing a request

A request can be refused if:

• Information is not held
• The request is obviously unreasonable
• The request is too general
• The request is for unfinished documents or data
• The request is for internal communications

If your request is refused we will give you advice on what to do next.

Requests may also be refused in order to protect the following, subject to the public interest test:

• Confidentiality of proceedings
• International relations / public security/ defence
• The course of justice and right to fair trial
• Commercial confidentiality
• Intellectual property rights
• Personal / voluntary data
• Environmental protection

Where else can I search for environmental information?

For more information visit the websites in the external links section below.

|Back to top

---

Contact

Commercial Environmental Health
Enforcement Service
Units 271-272
Lee Valley Technopark
Ashley Road
Tottenham
London
N17 9LN

Tel: 020 8489 5230

Fax: 020 8489 5133

|Back to top

---

Useful External Links

Ev lînkên li jêr parçeke cîtewna Belediya Haringeyê nînin.

Ji kerema xwe daxûyaniya me ya legal bixwînin beriya ku hun van lînkan bi kar tînin.

• Environment Agency - Your Environment
• Environment Agency - What's in your backyard?
• Defra - Noise mapping
• Defra - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

|
|