Western Group Environmental Health Service - Derry City Council

MonitoringMonitoring of Environmental Health services provided by the districts remains an important function of Group. This takes several forms.• Group staff collated and reviewed statistics relating to PPC and noise complaint enforcement.• A PPC risk scoring consistency exercise was also undertaken across all 5 councils in view of the introduction of risk based subsistence charges fromApril 2011.More informal monitoring also takes places during accompanied visits with staff in each of the 5 districts and through the review of reports and otherdocumentation.Contaminated LandPart III, the contaminated land provisions, of the Waste and Contaminated Land (NI) Order 1997 were notimplemented during 2011/12, and in the absence of a driver (eg EC Directive) are unlikely to be introduced inthe near future.There was however some progress with the NIEA Land-Use Database in that it had been updated andarrangements were being made for it to be accessible to councils. This will be an invaluable tool for councilsin dealing with contaminated land through the planning process.One substantial contamination assessment is currently being undertaken voluntarily be a company in theDerry CC area and Environmental Health have had significant involvement at key stages of its progress.14