FI17069

Request

The BBC has reported that in the year 2000, local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales were ordered to draw up a list of potentially contaminated sites in their area and remediate those considered a genuine risk to human health. 

I would like the following under the terms of the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR).  

  1. The number of potentially contaminated sites identified by your council in 2000 
  2. The number of these sites that were deemed high risk 
  3. The number of sites inspected that had significant levels of contamination, but have since been remediated  
  4. Details of the location of the potentially contaminated sites that were deemed high risk. This could be in the form of addresses, lat and long coordinates, or grid reference numbers.  
  5. The number of contaminated land inspections carried out per year by the council, from 1 January 2022 to 1 June 2026 
  6. The amount of money currently allocated to contaminated land work in the council’s most recent budget
  7. The date of their last published Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy produced by your council

Clarification:

The BBC has reported that in the year 2000, local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales were ordered to draw up a list of potentially contaminated sites in their area and remediate those considered a genuine risk to human health. 

I am requesting the number of potentially contaminated sites identified by your council as part of that process, from 2000 to whenever the analysis was conducted.

Response

1. 397.

2. Seven.

3. Seven sites were inspected by the Environmental Protection Team under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

4. As follows:

Site Number

X

Y

1

628936

158468

2

627187

145598

3

632065

143205

4

627022

153606

5

632135

140529

6

630384

143033

7

624307

157595

5. Zero.

6. The Environmental Protection Team has a budget of £3,504 for use of consultants which includes contaminated land work.

7. A link to the Council’s 2018 contaminated land strategy can be found on the Council’s website at https://www.dover.gov.uk/Environment/Environmental-Protection/Contaminated-Land/Contaminated-Land-Inspection-Strategy.pdf.  Work is underway to review this document and publication of a further revision is anticipated later this year.