Contaminated Land

Under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 Hart District Council has a duty to inspect the district in order to identify contaminated land.  This legislation was implemented in the year 2000 and required the Council to produce a Contaminated Land Strategy, outlining the intentions for identifying such land.  We are currently working towards implementing our Strategy, which covers the period 2001-2006.

The full Strategy document and a summary are available in the downloads section to the right.

Requests for information about potential contamination.

The Environmental Health Department holds information about sites which have the potential to be contaminated as a result of a historical land use.  A range of other environmental information is also held, relating to authorised processes, landfill sites, private water supplies, discharge consents and pollution incidents for example.

This information can be provided to interested parties under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.  This generally takes the form of an interrogation of the information held within a 250m radius of the specified address.  There is a charge for this service:

Single residential properties:      £55.00 per enquiry

Commercial properties:             £110.00 per enquiry

Charges are inclusive of VAT and are valid until 31^st March 2007.  Please contact Environmental Health to discuss your enquiry and the charge that will apply.  You will be asked to put your request in writing, preferably with a map specifying the site location, together with the relevant payment.  Please allow up to 10 working days from the receipt of payment for your report to be produced.