The Environment Centre of Vantaa

The Environment Centre of Vantaa promotes the sustaining of healthy and safe environment and advances the residents' health and wellbeing.

Contacts

Address

Lauri Korpisen katu 9 C
01370 Vantaa
Finland

Postal address
P.O. Box 8801, 01030 City of Vantaa
Phone
+358 9 839 11 (local network charge/mobile call charge)
All contacts and opening hours

Introduction

The Environment Centre of Vantaa promotes the sustaining of healthy and safe environment and advances the residents' health and wellbeing. The Environment Centre has a large scale of tasks including the protection of nature and environment, food safety, and animal protection and health. The tasks are divided between the environmental protection department and the environmental health department.

The environmental protection and the environmental health work in close cooperation, even though man
y of the Environment Centre's tasks are clearly divided between the departments.

The environmental protection focuses on large-scale environmental issues such as protection of biodiversity and functionality of nature, prevention of land contamination, land use planning, and development of environmental management.

The environmental health takes care of issues that directly affect people's health such as health protection, food safety and animal protection.

The Environmental Committee together with other authorities are responsible for the performance of the Environment Centre.

Services

Accessibility

The route to the main entrance

  • The accessible parking space is located outdoors over 10 m from the entrance. The width of the parking space is at least 3.6 m.
  • The pick-up and drop-off area is located in the vicinity of the entrance, giving easy access to the pavement.
  • The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.

The main entrance

  • The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated.
  • The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly and the glass doors have contrast markings. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door requires the use of a door phone, opening automatically.

In the facility

  • The customer service point is on the entrance floor.
  • The doors in the customer service point stand out clearly.
  • The waiting room of the customer service point has no queue number system. The waiting room has chairs.
  • The customer service point has an accessible toilet on the same floor.

Contacts

Address

Lauri Korpisen katu 9 C
01370 Vantaa
Finland

Postal address
P.O. Box 8801, 01030 City of Vantaa
Phone
+358 9 839 11 (local network charge/mobile call charge)
All contacts and opening hours