Environmental Health

Make Some Noise: Surrey licensee urges councils to communicate better over noise disputes

30-Sep-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A licensee, whose venue has survived two reviews, has called for local councils to be more proactive in mediating disputes between residents and premises to reduce the number taken to hearings.

Pubs face bill for environmental health inspections

01-May-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Pubs may have to pay hundreds of pounds a year for environmental health inspections under an EU proposal that businesses foot the bill rather than local councils.

Rocky road ahead for TENs

26-Mar-2012

One of the first activities to be affected by the proposed changes in licensing laws due to come into effect next month will be temporary event notices.

Manchester's promo crackdown 'farce'

23-Jun-2010 By John Harrington

Manchester licensees have slammed the "contradictory" messages from different authorities in the city about which drinks promotions are legal. The...

Food hygiene audit launch

03-Jul-2008

An "audit" service to prepare pubs for environmental health inspections has been launched. Bristol-based employment consultancy PES's "legal...

Fear & smoking in Mayfair

22-May-2008

An environmental health boss says fear of being attacked can be used as a defence for not upholding the smoking ban. Ian Gray, principal policy...

Spirit fined in new pub hygiene case

11-Jul-2007

Another Spirit pub has been fined for food hygiene breaches, the second such case for the managed pub group in recent weeks.The company was fined a...

NI businesses comply with smoking ban

04-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman

Nearly all businesses in Northern Ireland have stuck to the smoking ban, say councils.Staff from the 26 district councils have found a 99.5 per cent...

Spirit Group takes bashing over dead mouse

13-Feb-2006 By Iain O'Neil

Managed operator Spirit Group has been slated by environmental health officers for a catalogue of health and safety breaches - including decomposing rodents.

EHO shortage threatens food safety

09-Nov-2005

A national shortage of environmental health officers (EHOs) could have serious consequences for food safety.While the news may not cause red...

Dudley Council document makes late hours impossible'

05-May-2005

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has been accused of making it impossible for pubs to extend their hours by producing an "absolute minefield" of a...

Keep both eyes open if running a company

17-Oct-2002

Increasingly in English law, the concept of "due diligence" has been used in order to assess the apportionment of blame at various levels of a...

Food hazards

26-Feb-2002

Improved communication and flow of information can transform the Environmental Health Officer from a figure of fear into your greatest ally. Fiona...

PM asked to back smoking in workplace bid

11-Dec-2000

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has written to the Prime Minister urging him to back plans for an Approved Code of Practice...