Some garages and businesses place cars for sale, for an extended period, on the street, and in lay-bys. This can cause a significant nuisance to local residents and takes up valuable car parking spaces. The same is true with vehicles that are repaired on the street, which can also look unsightly, can lead to damage of the local environment (for example when oil is spilled or leaked) and may also present a danger to passers by. The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 introduced legal controls over these activities.
Read more about "Nuisance parking"...East Suffolk Council is continuing to work with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to contact businesses in East Suffolk to ensure they are protecting staff, customers and visitors from coronavirus.
Read more about "Helping businesses protect staff and customers"...The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) provides a daily air quality forecast with information based on five pollutants: ozone, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), Particles (PM2.5 and PM10) that can have an impact on your health.
Read more about "Pollution forecast"...Anglian Water is responsible for looking after many more sewers and wastewater pipes as a result of a change in the law that came into effect on 1 October 2011.
Read more about "Sewers and drains"...Radon is a natural radioactive gas, which enters buildings from the ground where it is formed from the minute amounts of uranium that occur naturally in all rocks and soils.
Read more about "Radon affected areas"...The contaminated land strategies for the former Suffolk Coastal and Waveney districts continue to apply for the East Suffolk area. These strategies will be reviewed during 2019, resulting in a single strategy.
Read more about "Contaminated land"...A green burial site has been set-up at Kirkley Cemetery in Lowestoft so that those who desire can lay their loved ones to rest in an ecologically friendly way and in an area that will develop into a pleasant and natural meadow/woodland.
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