Pollution
Contaminated LandContaminated Land
||Statutory Guidance has been issued to local authorities to take a "strategic approach" to inspect its land for the identification of contaminated land (Section 78B Environmental Protection Act 1990). For the definition of Contaminated Land please visit the DEFRA or Environment Agency website in related links.
Through this guidance the Council is required to publish a strategy to identify how the Council will set about inspecting
land within its district. This strategy details how the Council will take a rational, ordered and efficient approach to this
inspection. The initial Contaminated Land Strategy for Ashfield District Council was published in July 2001. A revised version
of the strategy was published in 2007. A copy of the strategy can be accessed in the documents section. We welcome your views
and comments relating to this document.
All local authorities are required to hold a register of contaminated land sites within their area.
This is a significant responsibility which extends existing local authority duties under the statutory nuisance regime, planning and development control. The role in broad terms includes:
- To cause the area to be inspected.
- To identify potentially contaminated sites.
- To determine whether any particular site is contaminated.
- To determine whether any such land should be designated a "special site".
- To act as enforcing authority for contaminated land not designated as a "special site".
Ashfield District Council's priorities in dealing with contaminated land will be:
- To protect human health.
- To protect controlled waters.
- To protect designated ecosystems.
- To prevent damage to property.
- To prevent further land contamination.
- To encourage voluntary remediation before taking enforcement action.
- To encourage re-use of brownfield sites.
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