Issue - meetings
Contaminated Land Strategy
Meeting: 04/07/2018 - Cabinet (Item 18)
18 Contaminated Land Strategy 
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To consider an updated Contaminated Land Strategy and to recommend it to the Council for approval.
Additional documents:
Decision:
RECOMMENDED:
That the Contaminated Land Strategy 2018, as attached as Appendix 1 to Report Item 13 to the Cabinet, be approved.
Minutes:
The Cabinet considered an updated Contaminated Land Strategy to reflect changes in statutory and technical guidance. The emphasis in the Strategy reflected the current ethos in the legislation, favouring a voluntary approach to remediation, with the most common route being through the development control or building control processes. The Council would be taking a strategic risk based approach to the potentially contaminated sites that had been identified in the District. Should a site represent a risk to health or to ecological interests the owners of the contaminated site would be able to agree a realistic timetable of remediation with the Council; and enforcement powers would only be used as a last resort.
RECOMMENDED:
That the Contaminated Land Strategy 2018, as attached as Appendix 1 to Report Item 13 to the Cabinet, be approved.