Find out about changes to our services and Christmas opening times on our Festive information page. To find out when your bin will be collected over the festive period, visit Changes to County Durham bin collections at Christmas.

Due to maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 11.45am on Tuesday 24 December until 8.00am on Thursday 2 January: our online Council Tax, business rates and housing benefit services, and our welfare assistance form. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Community Protection

Community Protection has responsibility for the functions of environmental health, trading standards and licensing.

The overall aim of the service is to protect and improve the health, safety, economic wellbeing and environment of the communities we serve. Services include:

food safety and standards
animal health and welfare
infectious disease control
community health surveillance
licences
markets
pollution control
public health
fair trading
safety and metrology

Contact Community Protection

Email ehcp@durham.gov.uk
Telephone 03000 261 016