Land Pollution |
 On 1st April 2000 new contaminated land legislation came into force in England. The new regime provides an improved system for the identification and remediation of contaminated land. It applies only to land causing unacceptable risks to human health or the wider environment, assessed in the context of the current use and circumstances of the land. Many land contamination problems are dealt with through development and planning controls and it is expected that this will continue. The new legislation provides a means of requiring the remediation of land where this is not already taking place voluntarily. The legislation is contained in Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the regime consists of these documents:
Councils have to assess their area to discover any land which may have become contaminated by industrial activities or waste disposal in the past. |