Statutory guidance

Contaminated land statutory guidance

This guidance is intended to explain how local authorities should implement the regime on contaminated land.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 10 April 2012

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Contaminated land statutory guidance

Ref: PB13735

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This guidance includes how they should go about deciding whether land is contaminated land in the legal sense of the term.

It also elaborates on the remediation provisions of Part 2A, such as the goals of remediation, and how regulators should ensure that remediation requirements are reasonable.

Published 10 April 2012