Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Enforcement and Community Safety introduced a report on an updated Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy (CLIS) for the Borough covering the period 2023 to 2028.

The Cabinet Member explained that legislation implemented in 2000 under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 required local authorities to undertake assessments of potential contaminated land and publish a CLIS.  Stemming from that work, thirteen high-risk sites across the Borough were subject to detailed evaluation at a total cost of £2.5m and only one, the Wantz Road Depot site, met the legal definition of contaminated land.  That assessment related to groundwater pollution and remediation works were subsequently carried out. 

The Cabinet Member advised that the updated CLIS identified no high-risk sites that warranted further detailed land inspections and it was confirmed that any potential future issues or concerns would be dealt with through the statutory planning process.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Approve the Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy 2023-2028 as set out at Appendix 1 to the report; and

(ii)  Agree the Council’s position that, to the best of its knowledge, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham no longer had any high-risk sites to investigate.