Responsibilities by
organisation
Your local authority 
- Abandoned vehicles
- Air pollution from vehicles, households, and some small
industries/businesses.
- Aquaculture works licences (Orkney and Shetland only)
- Checking private drinking water supplies
- Cleaning up fly-tipping (in some cases)
- Coastal protection
- Contaminated land
– identifying sites
– arranging for sites to be cleaned up
- Dog fouling and noise
- Environmental health and food hygiene
- Flooding
– providing sandbags and emergency equipment
– flooding from drains, sewers, streams or
ditches
– flood prevention
- Litter
- Litter, public health and facilities at beaches
- Nature conservation (through local biodiversity action
plans)
- Pest control
- Planning permission
- Road obstructions
- Smell from sewage treatment
- Smoke and smell
- Waste collection
- Your area waste plan
Your local
police 
- Abandoned vehicles
- Road obstructions
British
Waterways 
Crown Estate 
- Development consent for fish farms (Special arrangements exist
in Orkney and Shetland)
Drinking Water Quality
Regulator 
Environment and Heritage
Service 
- Environmental issues in Northern Ireland
Environment
Agency 
- Environmental issues in England and Wales
Fish Health Inspectorate (part of
Fisheries Research Service)
Food Standards
Agency 
Health and Safety
Executive
- Safety at nuclear installations
- Safety at major accident hazard sites (jointly with SEPA)
Historic
Scotland
Marine Coastguard
Agency
- Pollution from shipping and offshore installations
Scottish
Government 
- Legislation and policy for the environment in Scotland
- Navigational consent for fish farms
- Genetically modified organisms
- Environmental legislation and initiatives in areas including
sustainable development and rural policy
- Guiding delegated agencies in delivering objectives
- Liaising with UK government and EC on wider environmental
policies
Scottish Natural
Heritage
- Conservation (including Sites of Special Scientific Interest,
Special Areas of Conservation etc)
- Outdoor access – promoting code of practice
Scottish
Water
- Quality and supply of public drinking water
- Disposing of and treating sewage
- Flooding from sewers
- Emptying septic tanks (some private businesses also offer this
service)
National
Grid 
UK
Government
Waterwatch
Scotland 
- Represents customers of Scottish Water.