Air Quality - Odour

Every year the council receives complaints about odour from domestic, commercial and industrial sources. Smells are most common when there are easterly winds or no wind. This often coincides with hot sunny weather when people are most likely to be outdoors or when slurry spreading is taking place on nearby fields.

Click on the link below to to ask your question about odours within the borough:-

Ask Us A Question About Odour

Odour and Health - People often worry that bad smells may affect their health, but best advice tells us that odours are not usually dangerous to health, even if the smell causes physical symptoms such as nausea or changes in pulse and respiration rates. Odour is not a very well understood science, however, it is known that many chemicals can be detected by the human nose at concentrations far below that which would be hazardous to healththough it ican be difficult to identify the component in the air that is causing a particular smell. The council is lcurrently working with its partners on the Air Quality Forum to reduce the impact of odours within the borough.
What can be done about odours? - Odours can be classed as a 'statutory nuisance' under Part 3 of Environmental Protection Act 1990, if they are severe or less severe but regular. Statutory nuisances are investigated by the council but to take any action we need to know how often the odour occurs, witness the smell and, most importantly, establish where the smell is coming from and who is causing it. In the case of odours from both agricultural and industrial sources, this can be very difficult. Odours from complex industrial processes are regulated by the Environment Agency (EA) under Part 1 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, with some lesser complex processes regulated by the council (for more detailed information visit the Regulation Of Industry page). In general terms the EA regulate the majority of Stanlow and the power stations of the Deeside Industrial Estate, they also licence all waste disposal facilities. It should be noted that where process permits exist for a site the council cannot take nuisance action against the operator.
Odour - facts and Figures - click on the link below to find out more information about the odour complaints the Environmental protection Unit receive : Air Quality - Odour - Facts and Figures
Odour FAQs - click on the following link to find out the the answers to the questions you have asked us : Air Quality - Odour - FAQs
To report an incident - or should you require further information, please use the form below:

Environmental Protection - Air Quality

or call the AirWatch Helpline: 0151 356 6633, this operates 9am-4.30pm Monday to Friday. At all other times and when the line is busy please leave a message, including your phone number, and an officer will contact you as soon as possible.

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