Should clean-up and prevention notices specify technical solutions to pollution problems?
In general terms, the role of councils is to require stated environmental problems to be addressed, not to specify particular means of solving those problems. In matters where Council has expertise, it may give general advice on how to solve a problem. In other matters, clean-up and prevention notices can require expert reports to be prepared that propose technical solutions to particular problems. What can councils do about noise problems? (Clean-up notices can only be issued regarding ‘pollution incidents’, and pollution incidents do not include sets of circumstances involving only the emission of any noise).If the set of circumstances causes or is likely to cause a noise problem and a waste, water pollution or air pollution problem, then council can issue a clean-up notice. The clean-up notice can address the noise issue, as well as the other pollution or waste management problems. (Note that if a council issues a clean-up notice, a fee of $320 is payable to council.) In other circu
