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Pollution control - contaminated land
Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990
(www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_19900043_en_1.htm)
requires the council to identify contaminated land that is posing
an unacceptable risk to human health or the wider environment and
to find remedies.
Medway Council’s Contaminated
Land Inspection Strategy 2001 (pdf 274KB) sets out how
contaminated land will be identified and how sites will be
prioritised. To use this file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have it on your computer, please use our advice page.
The prioritisation of sites will ensure that resources are
concentrated on investigating areas where contaminated land is most
likely to be found and allow the most pressing and serious problems
to be located first. The strategy follows a prioritised approach,
with human health as the highest priority.
Environmental searches
Medway Council can provide environmental information on sites
within the Medway area. The council makes a standard charge of £150
(inclusive of VAT) for the supply of environmental information
(charges apply under the Freedom of Information
Regulations or Environmental Information Regulations
(www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2004/20043391.htm)).
Before supplying information, the council requires payment or an
official order, the national grid reference and a map of the site
at 1:2500 or 1:1250 scale. This should identify the site clearly
and show the surrounding area to a radius of not less than 1,640.4
feet (500m). Cheques should be made payable to Medway Council and
the required information should be sent to the address below.
On receiving this, the Kent Landfill Atlas will be used
to assess whether there are any known landfill sites within 250
metres of the site in question. Reference will also be made to the
public register of processes, authorised under Part 1 of the
Environmental Protection Act 1990, to establish whether
any processes are located in the vicinity of the site. Medway
Council’s inspection strategy for contaminated land (as required by
Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990) has
been produced and the public register currently contains no entries
and no determinations of contaminated land, as defined by the Act,
have been made. Brief details of historic land-use and any known
pollution incidents or environmental concerns can be provided.
Details will normally be supplied within 10 working days of
receiving an order or payment. Should you require more detailed
information, please write to confirm your requirements. An estimate
of the cost for providing additional information will be provided
within 10 days of receiving an enquiry, together with an indication
of the time within which the information can be supplied.
To report a land contamination problem to Medway Council, please
use one of these two online forms:
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