The document below is a guide to submitting planning applications to develop land that may be contaminated.
It sets out what sort of information the council will need from you. It also explains how we will assess the information. If you are employing a consultant you should give them a copy of this guidance. This is to make them aware of what information is needed and when.
The following document provides guidance on what information is likely to be requested as part of the phased risk assessment process. Which is outlined in the above document.
For more advice or help, please contact the Environmental Protection team on 01724 297633.
More information
To find out what the council's planning policy on contaminated land is see section DS7 of the document below.
More information about the council's contaminated land inspection strategy can be found on our contaminated land pages.
Advice and information can also be found on the Environment Agency website.
And the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs website.
Note: The above documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need a suitable reader to view them. A reader can be downloaded free from the Adobe website (full instructions for downloading the reader are provided on the site).