Environmental Health

Worthing Borough Council's strategic objective is to make Worthing a town where people want to live, work and invest, and to make Worthing a safer, cleaner and healthier town.

Worthing Borough Council's Environmental Health Group deliveres a broad range of services to the residents and businesses of Worthing, working to deliver services that improve the quality of life for people of the town and for the environment in general.

Environmental Health services provide a range of regulatory services broadly related to those aspects of environmental and human health affecting quality of life that are determined by physical, biological, social and psychological factors in the environment.

This dedicated group of specialist officers is responsible for administering and enforcing statutory requirements, making available technical advice, providing health education and a number of important services vital to the borough. The group is split into two teams:

The Health and Environmental Protection Group is responsible for a number of services including:-

• Private sector housing - including grants, houses in multiple occupancy licensing and enforcement, home energy efficiency work and empty homes work.
• Pollution - including the monitoring of pollution, including bathing water quality and air pollution, contaminated land, drainage issues and the monitoring, investigation and enforcement of noise legislation. 
• Public health hazards - including Public Health burials.
• Dog warden and Pest control services. 

The Food and Occupational Health Group  is responsible for a number of services including:-

• Food - ensuring that food produced, purchased and/or consumed in the Borough is safe and without risks to health, carrying out the appropriate and proportionate enforcement of food safety legislation through the inspection of food and food premises. This includes ensuring the fitness of foodstuffs sold for human consumption; food safety enforcement;
  advisory duties, and food hygiene training; helping to prevent the spread of food poisoning or other infectious diseases.
• Health & Safety - ensure statutory health & safety at work standards are met in workplaces for which the Council is the enforcing authority.
• Licensing - the administration and enforcement of the majority of  licensing within the borough ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and licence conditions in premises subject to licence or registration controls including those issued under the Licensing Act 2003, Gambling Act 2005, Taxi licensing and other licensing functions of the Council; Charty Collections, Street Trading, Sex Establishment licensing, Dangerous Wild Animals, Pet Shops, Skin Piercing, Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs), Motor Salvage Operators, etc;

Many aspects of the Environmental Health Group's work is highly technical and requires highly specialist advice. To access the information and contact details you require first choose the type of information you are seeking from the menu on the left.

Out of Office Hours Emergency Problems

The Council now provides an out-of-hours service for emergency problems. Please see the Environmental Health contact information.

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