Abstract
Some miscellaneous statutory nuisances under section 79(1)(h) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (‘EPA 1990’) remain from the Public Health Act 1936 and from the Mines and Quarries Act 1954. In none of these is the defence of “best practicable means’ available.1 The miscellaneous statutory nuisances comprise nuisances from: watercourses;tents, vans, sheds and similar structures used for human habitation; domestic water supply; and unfenced abandoned mines and quarries.