Council services

Trading Standards are involved in several areas, these include:

Community Safety

Activities mainly relate to action against those who engage in rogue trading and the sales of age-restricted products.

Supply of unsafe goods.

Fair Trading

We undertake a risk based inspection programme and respond to complaints about a wide range of activities including:

property descriptions

consumer credit

prices and false statements made about goods and services

Supporting consumers

Trading Standards exists to make sure you get a fair deal when you buy goods and services.

For Consumer Advice contact Consumer Direct on:

08454 04 05 06 or

visit the Consumer Direct website

Supporting businesses

A wide range of support and guidance to help local businesses comply with the law and provide a good service to their customers.

We are unable to give confidential information about individual businesses.