Environmental and Enforcement Services
Environmental Protection
The Environmental Protection Team deals with complaints and enquiries relating to all aspects of pollution including air quality and land quality.
The team has been leading the review of local air quality that all councils are required to undertake. We have declared an Air Quality Management Area along the A13.
Local Authorities, under the Environmental Protection Act, regulate pollution from industrial processes for example dry cleaners, waste oil burners and concrete crushers. This team is responsible for pollution prevention and control, permitting industrial processes and undertaking regular inspections.
The team is leading on the Contaminated Land Strategy, which will ensure that all land in the borough is reviewed to identify and prioritise action on contamination.
Responses to planning applications sent to the department for comment are coordinated by this team who have responsibility for assessing the environmental impact of planning and development proposals.
This section is involved in many strategic projects, for example, the Barking Riverside project, Channel Tunnel Rail Link, A13 realignment, Local Agenda 21 and Environmental Management.
Construction work on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link has finished in the borough. The Channel Tunnel Rail Link line travels above ground between the borough boundary with Havering and Ripple Lane, where it goes into a tunnel, resurfacing at Stratford.
For more information contact:
Union Railways (North) Limited
2 Ossulton Street
London
NW1 1HT
24 hour help line: 0845 604 0246
Responses to planning applications sent to the department for comment are coordinated by this team who have responsibility for assessing the environmental impact of planning and development proposals.
This section is involved in many strategic projects, for example, the Barking Riverside project, Channel Tunnel Rail Link, A13 realignment, Local Agenda 21 and Environmental Management.
The team is leading on the Contaminated Land Strategy, which will ensure that all land in the borough is reviewed to identify and prioritise action on contamination.
Environmental Protection is part of the Environmental and Enforcement Services Section within Customer Services.
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Documents
Our Environment Policy 
PDF 103K
Nottingham Declaration on climate change PDF 142K
Asbestos in the home PDF 174K
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