Land - Soil and Contamination

This and subsequent pages provides details of Defra's work on soil and contaminated land as follows (note that environmental liability is now separately indexed):

• Contaminated Land
  
  
• Soil

"What's New"

• Environment Agency consultation paper "Principles for Evaluating the Human Health Risks from Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils". See Agency site for details.
• Single Remediation Permit
• Final Report for Research Contract CLL 35/1/12: Managing and Developing the UK Interface with CLARINET
• Supplementary Credit Approvals: new forms for 2003-04 and guidance

• Withdrawal of ICRCL Guidance Note 59/83 (2nd Edition): Letter and briefing note

• A revised version of the software model "CLEA 2002"
• New Environment Agency report on progress on contaminated land
• new CLR publications including Soil Guideline Values (now available for download)
• report on "Audit of Contaminated Land Research in the UK"

Enquiries

These pages provide general detail on the main areas of work but if you would like further information please contact: landquality.enquiries@defra.gsi.gov.uk.

Contaminated Land Branch
Europe Environment Division
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
5/F2 Ashdown House
123 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6DE

Tel: 020 7082 8568
Fax: 020 7082 8567

Enquiries about land quality issues in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland may be addressed to the following:

Wales
The National Assembly for Wales
Environment Division
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ

Enquiries tel: 029 2089 8200
Website: www.wales.gov.uk (English language); www.cymru.gov.uk (Welsh language).

Scotland
Environment and Rural Affairs Department Environmental Protection Unit
Scottish Executive
1-J Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ

Enquiries tel: 08457 741741
Web site: www.scotland.gov.uk
E-mail enquiries: ceu@scotland.gov.uk

Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Executive
Waste Management and Contaminated Land
Department of the Environment (NI)
Commonwealth House
35 Castle Street
Belfast
BT1 1GU

Enquiries tel: 02890 546446
Web site: www.nics.gov.uk
E-mail enquiries: envprot.ehs@nics.gov.uk