Code of good agricultural practice for the protection of air / Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Welsh Office, Agriculture Department.

  • Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Date:
1992
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Code of good agricultural practice for the protection of air / Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Welsh Office, Agriculture Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Introduction livestock wastes are those most likely to cause odour problems. Advice on minimising odour nuisance is given in Sections 2 to 8 of this Code. the burning of crop residues, packaging, plastics, tyres, waste oil or animal carcases in the open or in unsuitable equipment. Advice on how to minimise the need to burn these materials and on how to avoid producing dark smoke or causing smoke nuisance when burning is given in Sections 9 to 17 of this Code. gases which help to cause atmospheric problems. Advice on how to minimise the amount of gases given off is given in this Code. Ammonia, which contributes to making soils acid is covered in Sections 2 to 8, along with odours. Section 18 covers greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Department is responsible for enforcing legislation on odour nuisance and smoke. Under Part III, Section 79, of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, local authorities have a duty to inspect their areas to detect any statutory nuisances and to take reasonably practicable steps to investigate complaints of statutory nuisance which are made to them. Section 79 of the Act defines statutory nuisances as including: Any premises in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance. Smoke emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance. Any dust, steam, smell or other effluvia arising on industrial, trade or business premises and being prejudicial to health or a nuisance. Any animal kept in such a place or manner as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance. Any other matter declared by any enactment to be a statutory nuisance. Health Department is satisfied that a statutory nuisance exists, or is likely to occur or recur, it has a duty to serve an abatement notice under Part III, Section 80 of the Act requiring: The abatement of the nuisance or prohibiting or restricting its occurrence or recurrence. The execution of such works and the taking of such other steps as may be necessary for any of those purposes. A person served with an abatement notice may appeal to a Magistrates’ Court within 21 days of being served with the notice. Apart from action taken by a local authority, any person aggrieved by a statutory nuisance can take proceedings in a Magistrates’ Court.
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