Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 120643

Odour Pollution

Tabled: 13 March 2026

Answered: 19 March 2026

Question

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

Emma Hardy

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...

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