Abstract
Premises may be in such a state that they constitute a statutory nuisance to the occupier of those premises (an “internal nuisance’) or to an adjoining occupier. When premises fall into the internal nuisance category, this will, normally, fall under the health limb of section 79(1 )(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (‘EPA l 990’) since there is no element of a private or public nuisance present.1 Some actual or threatened injury to health must then be shown.