Would anyone be able to advise who the enforcing authority for petrol filling stations is?

Reading the Enforcing Authority Regs it appears to be the LA not the HSE? (sale and storage of goods for retail not wholesale)

Also, would the storage and sale of petrol be treated separtely to the retail premises that sells food etc? Or the forecourt treated as 1 premises. I'm just wondering about DSEAR etc. and if EHO's dealt with this area of H&S.

Many thanks :-)

I spent several years as a "petroleum officer" in an LA.
Enforcing H&S at these retail premises goes along with related statutory issues such as weights and measures, food safety, sale of goods, etc.
Notable though that Petrol Filling Stations didn't specifically feature in the list of premises discussed elsewhere in a recent thread.

We need to be careful with the use of the term LA. In different parts of the Country there may be a single tier of LA whilst in other parts their are two tiers of LA?

Local Authority in many cases is the District or Borough Council. In these areas there will also be a County Council.
However in London Boroughs, Metropolitan Boroughs and where Single-Tier Unitary Councils are in place (no District or Borough) these are the LA for H&S purposes.
In practice it is the Council where Environmental Health sit.

Petrol stations are enforced for health and safety purposes by Environmental Health rather than HSE. However, petrol stations will also be subject to inspection by the Petroleum Licensing Authority which will either be the Fire and Rescue Service or Trading Standards Department of the County Council or Single Tier LA.

Definitely LA for health & safety for the fuel sales plus shop activities, and also trading standards (petroleum licensing and weights & measures) enforcement responsibility.

In the early 1980s during my time with HSE a specialist fire & explosion inspector and I had brief involvement with a retail garage regarding the design and siting of a proposed large LPG (butane/propane mix) tank. The garage intended to expand into selling 'autogas' for vehicles and our involvement stemmed from a request for specialist advice made by the LA environmental health dept and/or planning dept, especially as the garage had limited spare land and was located within a residential area. However, this was probably a very isolated involvement of HSE with such premises and perhaps at a time when autogas facilities were quite new.

The garage was able to meet the minimum requirements and duly installed the LPG tank. However, within a year or so, I think the tank was removed, perhaps because insufficient numbers of LPG powered vehicles visited the garage to make the autogas facility financially viable at that time.

p.s. Thank goodness N Burrows' response at #5 hasn't prompted any suggestions that most people who see or hear the letters LA usually think of Los Angeles! :-)