Enforcement of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013

Rowan Bridge made this Freedom of Information request to Broadland District Council as part of a batch sent to 309 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

The request was successful.

Dear FOI team,

I would like to make the following requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

1. How many visits have your Local Authority Officers made to licensed Scrap Metal Dealers in order to enforce the provisions of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 since October 2018?

2 How many closure orders have been issued or enforcement actions undertaken by yourselves against scrap metal dealers, both mobile and site-based, since October 2018?

Yours faithfully,

Rowan Bridge

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