Public Health and Housing

The Environmental Health Section carries out a number of functions to promote, improve and safeguard public health throughout Argyll. This includes liaising with SEPA (link to http://sepa.org.uk/), Scottish Water (link to http://www.scottishwater.co.uk) and Highland Health Board (link to http://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk) regarding any public health incidents such as foodborne disease outbreaks.

Nuisance

Officers have wide ranging powers to deal with nuisances that may be causing extreme annoyance or affecting somebody’s health. This can include a number of situations such as noise nuisance, sewage leaks from septic tanks, properties in such poor condition that it affects people’s health, dust from building works, and foul smells affecting properties. Click here for further advice

Private Water Supplies

The Section has a duty to monitor approximately 1800 private water supplies that serve more than 7,000 people throughout Argyll. Officers can offer advice on improving and maintaining private water supplies and take enforcement action where necessary. Non means tested grant funding of up to £800 per property may be available to you to improve your private water supply. More information on private water supplies.

Communicable Disease Control

Officers from the Section play an important role in assisting the Health Board with the investigation and prevention of communicable disease including food poisoning. Click here for further information regarding food poisoning and other communicable diseases information and fact sheets.

Smoking Ban

The Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Prohibition of Smoking in Certain premises (Scotland) Regulations 2006 come in to effect on 26 March 2006, it prohibited smoking in many public places. You can find out further information on the smoking ban here.click here .

Housing Issues

The condition of our housing can have a large impact on our health and wellbeing. For further information relating to housing conditions, improvements, grants and registrations please visit the housing pages. For information about how to 'register as a landlord' or get a house in multiple occupation licence follow the links.