Pple Business Census Committees Community Safety Council Council Tax Councillors Countryside Cycling Design Awards Dog Control Education Emergency plan Environ. Health Farmers Market Finance Finding us Food safety Grants Help - this site Home Page Health and Safe. The Council's regulatory services, such as Environmental Health and Planning, play a very necessary and important part in achieving this. The Council also sets out a range of local policies in its published statutory Local Plan. These policies are comprehensive and sometimes have to be applied where there are conflicting pressures, such as balancing the need for new housing against the need to protect the environment.
Planning applications can raise complex issues and conflicting priorities.
We cannot satisfy everyone, but our basic aim is to prevent inappropriate or damaging development. We try always to ensure that, where development is allowed, it is of the highest quality and, where breaches of planning control occur, we take appropriate action. There is a strong statutory framework for Environmental Health which covers food safety, health and safety at work, infectious diseases, environmental pollution, housing standards, home improvement grants, prevention of nuisances, dogs and pest control. The effects of these services on public health and safety make a very real difference to residents, businesses and the environment in Waverley. The same survey showed that one quarter of applicants were very or fairly dissatisfied, irrespective of whether their application was approved or refused.