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Minute 581 Environment Committee January 2022
Delegated Authority be given to the Group Head of Technical
Services or their nominated representative to make any necessary
consequential changes to the attached Enforcement Policy for
Environmental Health, Private Sector Housing, Licensing and
Cleansing and the Statement of Principles for the Electrical Safety
Standards in the Private Rented Sector Regulations 2020 and the
Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations 2015, as a result of
new legislation or alternative practices.

The decision taken was to agree an amendment to the existing joint
enforcement policy for Environmental Health, Private Sector
Housing, Licensing and Cleansing.

Reasons for the decision

Full Council agreed at their meeting on 16
July 2025 that the Enforcement Review Panel was to be disbanded
from 1 September 2025. Therefore the policy requires amendment to
reflect this change and substitute with a new process for making
decisions to prosecute.

Alternative options considered

To not make amendments to the existing policy,
this would leave the Council open to challenge in regard to any
decisions to prosecute as there would not be an agreed process in
place.