Environmental Health

This section covers the following topics:

animals: advice on dog and other animal related issues, and the service we provide
food safety and hygiene: what we do to ensure food safety and hygiene, plus practical advice
health and safety at work: explaining the law and how we enforce it
infectious disease: identifying the cause of infection and controlling the spread of infection in the community
pollution: air pollution and other issues and NDC's role
water quality - advice on the quality of drinking water and bathing water.

NDC's Environmental Health service is responsible for delivering these services and is responsible for housing issues and delivering our business licensing service.

NDC's Environmental Health service has certain enforcement powers. Read our enforcement policy (pdf 124 kB)

to learn how we use these powers.

Customer service commitment

We are committed to excellent customer care and quality of service.

Read more about our service standards and performance.

Contact information

To contact the Customer Service Centre:

Telephone: 01271 388870
For Typetalk: precede with 18001
Text: 07624 804042
Fax: 01271 388451
Email: customerservices@northdevon.gov.uk
Web form: report an incident
Web form: request a service