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Odour Pollution

Commons · Question 120643 · Tabled 13 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 19 Mar 2026

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Asked by Charlotte Nichols

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will issue guidance to (a) the Environment Agency and (b) local authority officers setting out their respective powers to (i) identify an odour and (ii) take enforcem

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 19 Mar 2026

Owners of industrial, trade and business premises are expected to use the best practicable means available to reduce odours, effluvia and other potential sources of statutory nuisance emanating from their place of work in the first place. If this is not h...