Issue - meetings

Environmental Enforcement

Meeting: 02/09/2010 - Sustainable Communities Scrutiny Committee (Item 42)

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To give consideration to the Environmental Enforcement Policy

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report of the Community Safety Manager enclosing the Cheshire east enforcement policy. The policy aimed to secure an efficient and effective approach to all Council regulatory inspection and enforcement functions.

 

The Policy set out 3 levels of enforcement:

 

Promotion - 

To raise awareness about legal standards and promote good

practice.

 

Informal Warnings

To reinforce promotional activities. In such cases when the law may have been broken, but it was not thought appropriate to take more formal action. An informal warning can be oral or written.

 

 

Formal Enforcement

This includes the use of statutory (legal) notices; written undertakings and enforcement orders; cautions; fixed penalty notices; penalty charge notices and prosecution this course of action would be taken following procedures laid down in legislation, codes of practice and professional

guidance notes.

 

RESOLVED – That the report be received and cabinet be informed that this Committee considers that the Enforcement Policy is adequate in its present form.