The Public Health section investigates and monitors the County of Carmarthenshire for Statutory Nuisances as prescribed under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Statutory Nuisances are those that have been listed in section 79 of the Act and include :

(a) any premises in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(b) smoke emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(c) fumes or gases emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(d) any dust, steam, smell or other effluvia arising on industrial, trade or business premises and being prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(e) any accumulation or deposit which is prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(f) any animal kept in such a place or manner as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(fa) any insects emanating from relevant industrial, trade or business premises and being prejudicial to health or a nuisance
(fb) artificial light emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(g) noise emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(ga) noise that is prejudicial to health or a nuisance and is emitted from or caused by a vehicle, machinery or equipment in a street or, in Scotland, road;
(h) any other matter declared by any enactment to be a statutory nuisance.

Contact :

Public Protection
3 Spilman Street
Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire
SA31 1LE
Tel: 01267 234567
Email  direct@carmarthenshire.gov.uk