Nuisance generally entails some form of damage to, or unreasonable and substantial interference with a person's use or enjoyment of, property. Environmental Health Officers can investigate certain types of nuisance complaints called ‘Statutory Nuisances’ in response to complaints from members of the public. There are 13 defined categories of Statutory nuisances. These are specific situations/activities set down in law (Section 7 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2011). If any of these activities result in:
a substantial interference by the owner or occupier of property with the use and enjoyment of neighbouring premises.
and/or, prejudicial to health
they can then be investigated as a statutory nuisance. Judgement of whether or not a reported nuisance constitutes a statutory nuisance can take time.
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