The Environmental Protection Advisory Panel advises CIEH's policy positions and subsequent consultation responses, campaigns and wider activities around environmental protection. The panel is made up of members from the public, private and academic sectors. Ultimately, our panel serves to provide member engagement within our policy formulation, and uphold CIEH's vision to promote 'safer, cleaner and healthier environments for the benefit of all', by ensuring that environmental health professionals guide our work.

Strategic objectives

  1. Bring Environmental Health perspectives to the forefront of climate change policies, to protect against unintended consequences arising from adaptation and mitigation and understand the potential impact upon EHP’s roles.
  2. Achieving greater awareness, progress and governance of air quality and noise pollution as the top two environmental stressors upon health and the role of environmental health professionals in tackling these issues.
  3. Analyse and mitigate the environmental risks of both urban and rural land development.
  4. Promote the public health impacts of water pollution and achieve greater engagement at a national level and with key regulators and stakeholders with responsibilities in this space, such as Ofwat and the Environment Agency to tackle this important issue and other cross-cutting issues impacting public health outcomes.

Panel members

Name Job title Employer
Adam Bucior Environmental Health Team Leader Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Caroline Currie Senior Environmental Health Officer East Lindsey District Council
Chris Hodson Environmental Health Manager Preston City Council
Christopher Fry Chair of Trustees of Environmental Protection Environmental Protection UK
Colin Cobbing Director Pinnacle Acoustics Consultants Limited
David Carr Lead Scientific Officer Dacorum Borough Council
David Williams Retired EHP n/a
Kristian James Principal Environmental Public Health Specialist Public Health Wales
Lynda Stefek Senior Manager Air Quality & Environment Transport for Greater Manchester
Matthew Clark Programme Manager - Air Quality Hertfordshire County Council
Neil Shellard Senior Pollution Control Officer Flintshire County Council
Paul McCullough Principal Environmental Health Officer (Environmental Protection) Armagh City Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council
Richard Allard Senior Environmental Protection Officer Mendip District Council
Simon Clothier Environmental Studies Team Co-ordinator Leeds City Council
Somayya Yaqub Head of Health and Safety London Borough of Ealing
Steve Braund Team Leader Strategic Environmental Protection Buckinghamshire Council
Tim Glews Environmental Consultant TG Environmental Consultants

What we're doing

What we're saying

Key messages

  • CIEH supports a comprehensive and consistent approach to brownfield development that provides better funding and guidance for environmental regulators to adequately address the environmental issues related to land contamination.
  • CIEH are concerned that too much weight and emphasis is given within urban development to maximising the number of houses, with insufficient consideration for the unintended consequences of contaminated land, air quality and noise pollution which have deleterious effects on health.
  • CIEH argue that any changes to the National Policy Planning Framework must be linked to local delivery.
  • CIEH argue for a top-down, holistic approach to reducing air pollution that encompasses all sources of emissions (industrial, agricultural, transport and domestic).
  • CIEH support the phasing out of petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans by 2035.
  • CIEH argue for government to introduce a Nitrogen Reduction Strategy.
  • CIEH argue that government must adopt more ambitious air quality targets, particularly concerning PM2.5 and NO2 emissions, including a target of 10ug/m3 PM2.5 by 2030.
  • CIEH argues that the Government must regulate domestic fuel burners in urban areas and where there are on-grid heating alternatives.
  • CIEH support targeted public awareness campaigns on the public health and environmental impacts of domestic woodburning.
  • CIEH advocate for a strategic framework and greater resourcing for local authorities to enforce air quality regulations.
  • CIEH argue that the Government’s Air Quality Grant is insufficient in helping local authorities tackle local air pollution.
  • CIEH support the introduction of Clean Air Acts in both England and Northern Ireland.
  • CIEH advocate for a holistic approach to noise pollution, and for noise and air quality management to be integrated with housing policies to tackle wider health inequalities.
  • CIEH believes that it is important to have specialist noise practitioners in local authorities critiquing planning applications and able to defend their comments at inquiries.
  • CIEH argue for the Government to take tougher action against water companies illegally discharging untreated sewage and improve the UK’s sewage infrastructure as a national priority.
  • CIEH urge the Government to commit to working with key environmental and public health stakeholders in the race to reach net zero.
  • CIEH urge the Government to retain the fracking moratorium and pursue greater investment in renewables and energy efficiency to reduce dependence on the use of fossil fuels

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