FOI request (FOIR-167708668)

Smell Complaints

Requested Tue 14 January 2020
Responded Fri 17 January 2020

I would like to know how many complaints your council has received for 'nuisance smells/odours' as covered by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Please provide data dating back to 2015 and separated by year if held.

If possible I would also like to know the address of each complaint. Just the town name is sufficient if full addresses cannot be provided.

The nature of what was complained about. (E.g. agriculture, sewage, commercial food preparation, etc.)

Finally, if the data is easily available, I would like to know what the outcome of each complaint was.

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Response

2015:

Total number of odour complaints - 88

Odour from domestic premises - 75

Odour from commercial premises - 13

Address - Hastings

Outcome - All investigated and resolved

2016:

Total number of odour complaints - 113

Odour from domestic premises - 97

Odour from commercial premises - 26

Address - Hastings

Outcome - All investigated and resolved

2017:

Total number of odour complaints - 84

Odour from domestic premises - 62

Odour from commercial premises - 22

Address - Hastings

Outcome - All investigated and resolved

2018:

Total number of odour complaints - 58

Odour from domestic premises - 44

Odour from commercial premises - 14

Address - Hastings

Outcome - All investigated and resolved

2019:

Total number of odour complaints - 66

Odour from domestic premises - 51

Odour from commercial premises - 15

Address - Hastings

Outcome - All investigated and resolved