Residential Environment

Residential Environmental Health

The Residential Environmental Health team can assist residents in relation to housing hazards and other matters such as pests, nuisance, public health issues, drainage problems and waste accumulation on private land.

As well as responding to housing problems raised by residents we also take a proactive approach to ensure that conditions in houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) are maintained to a good standard. We operate a licensing scheme for certain type of HMOs. 

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Trading standards

The Trading Standards team deals with the 26,000 active businesses that exist in Westminster. The service enforces a wide variety of consumer protection legislation within the City and reacts to complaints and intelligence from other agencies to target problem areas and traders through project work. Problems dealt with include the supply of unsafe goods, the sale of short weight or measure goods, the illegal sale of fake goods and the sale of age-restricted goods.

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Pest control

Pest Control also provides a reactive service to deal with pests in domestic premises and has a proactive programme of treatments under agreements with the Housing Department. It also offers a free needle pick-up service and will deal with noxious waste in certain circumstances.

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Mortuary

The mortuary is located in Horseferry Road and provides public mortuary and post mortem facilities for the City and Kensington and Chelsea.