North Lincolnshire Council is the primary enforcing authority for contaminated land issues in the area. A new statutory regime for dealing with the inherited legacy of industrial activity in the form of land pollution was introduced on 1 April 2000 under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Under Part IIA (Section 78) of the Act, the council has a duty to inspect the area to identify contaminated land.
As the first stage in this inspection process the council must publish a Strategy for Inspection.
The strategy sets out a detailed five-year inspection programme. This aims to identify areas of potentially contaminated land where historical industrial activity may have left pollution in, on or under the land.
A complete copy of the Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy is available to download and print. This can be seen below:
Part 1 contains: executive summary, contents and an introduction.
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Part 2 contains: characteristics of North Lincolnshire.
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Part 3 contains: North Lincolnshire Council aims and priorities, procedures, general communication and liaison, mechanisms for review, resource requirements and appendices.
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All North Lincolnshire residents are encouraged to get involved in the identification of potentially contaminated land, by providing any relevant information they have. Any information can be sent to:
Environmental Protection Team,
North Lincolnshire Council,
Church Square House,
PO Box 42,
Scunthorpe,
North Lincolnshire,
DN15 6XQ
You can also telephone 01724 297633/20 or email: environmental.health@northlincs.gov.uk.
The strategy is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format and therefore requires a reader to view it. The reader can be downloaded free from the Adobe website (full instructions for downloading the reader are provided on the website).