Land Use and Environmental Planning

Public health provides input to waste management and other land-use planning initiatives to reflect the need for potential environmental threats to human health to be minimized, mitigated and/or prevented.

The Ministry of Health provides guidance to Health Authorities and develops legislation, regulation, policy and guidelines regarding:

• On-site sewage disposal
• Health implications of solid and liquid waste disposal
• Land use activities and communicable disease
• Public health issues concerning subdivision assessment processes