Call for evidence outcome

Landfill tax grant scheme: call for evidence

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 21 July 2022
• Last updated: 15 March 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

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The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) received 37 responses to the call for evidence.

The call for evidence provided a significant amount of information, giving Defra an overview of the issues regarding remediating land affected by contamination and landfill tax.

Numerous example sites were highlighted where a landfill tax grant scheme could make the difference between land affected by contamination being remediated or not.

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Original call for evidence

Summary

Seeking views on a proposed scheme that will refund landfill tax in order to encourage the redevelopment of brownfield sites and contaminated land.

This call for evidence was held on another website.

This call for evidence ran from
9:30am on 21 July 2022 to 11:45pm on 18 August 2022

Call for evidence description

We want to know what you think about the current landfill tax and the impact it may have on local regeneration and remediation of contaminated land.

This will help with designing a future scheme aimed at supporting local authorities (including Combined Authorities and Mayoral Development Corporations) overcome any barriers to regeneration created by the current tax.

Published 21 July 2022
Last updated 15 March 2023 + show all updates

1. 15 March 2023

   Added the government response and summary of responses.

2. 21 July 2022

   First published.