EHS - Environment and Heritage Service

THE EHS is an Executive Agency within the Department of the Environment. The aim of the Service is to protect, conserve and enhance the natural and built environment and to promote its appreciation for the benefit of present and future generations.

The EHS takes the lead in promoting and implementing environmental policy in Northern Ireland. The agency carries out a range of activities which promote the Government's strategies on sustainable development, biodiversity and climate change whilst also achieving our overall aims to protect and conserve Northern Ireland's natural heritage and built environment, to control and regulate pollution and to promote wider appreciation of the environment and best environmental practices.
The main aims of EHS are to promote and implement government policy by:

• protecting and improving the quality of air, land and water
• conserving nature and the countryside and protecting species
• protecting, recording and conserving historic monuments and buildings
• promoting awareness and appreciation of the environment and heritage, both locally and globally
• supporting the adoption of the principles of sustainable development and biodiversity across government and society
• contributing to the development of environmental policy by the provision of expert advice to the Department's Environmental Policy Division.
  

The EHS is located in three main offices in Belfast with the Chief Executive, Corporate Affairs and Natural Heritage in Commonwealth House, Castle Street, Built Heritage in Hill Street and Environmental Protection in Calvert House, Castle Place. Staff are also based at Regional buildings throughout Northern Ireland at historic monuments, country parks, countryside centres, depots and other properties in our care.

Website: www.ehsni.gov.uk