Recent Legislation

• These Regulations consolidate the Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2000 and the Contaminated Land (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 with amendments. These Regulations, which apply to England only, also set out provisions relating to the identification and remediation of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
  
  The Regulations provide an additional description of contaminated land that is required to be designated as a special site.  That is, land which is contaminated land as a result of radioactive substances in, on or under that land.
  
  The Regulations:

• identify those categories of site (known as "special sites") in relation to which the Environment Agency is to be the enforcing authority. Local authorities are the enforcing authority in relation to any other type of site.
• provide for the content and service of copies of "remediation notices", that is, notices served by a local authority or the Environment Agency specifying what is to be done by way of remediation and the time for taking any action.
• make provision in relation to the compensation which is to be paid in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to a person who grants, or joins in granting, rights of entry etc required to enable a person to comply with a remediation notice.
• make provision with respect to appeals against remediation notices, including the grounds of appeal and the procedure to be followed.
• prescribe the particulars of matters which are required under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to be placed on a register maintained by local authorities or, in the case of special sites, by the Environment Agency.
   
• In force - 4 August 2006
• Access to document:  Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) Document

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