Issue - meetings
Contaminated Land Strategy
Meeting: 12/01/2017 - Cabinet (Item 61)
61 Contaminated Land Strategy 
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Report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Public Protection on the review and update of the Contaminated Land Strategy
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED
That the new Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy be approved as set out in the report.
REASONS
(i) All local authorities are under a statutory duty to review their contaminated land inspection strategies.
(ii) The outcome of the consultation did not result in any objections to the proposed new inspection strategy.
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Housing and Public Protection reported that, in accordance with Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Council was required to produce a written inspection strategy to identify areas of contaminated land within the district.
The Council’s original contaminated land inspection strategy had been agreed in September 2001 and was reviewed and amended in 2007. A further review and statutory consultation had recently been undertaken and a new contaminated land strategy was now recommended for approval and publication.
The Housing and Public Protection Policy Development Advisory Group supported the proposal
RESOLVED
That the new Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy be approved as set out in the report.
REASONS
(i) All local authorities are under a statutory duty to review their contaminated land inspection strategies.
(ii) The outcome of the consultation did not result in any objections to the proposed new inspection strategy.