Policy information sourced from the Broxbourne Local Plan

EQ5: Contaminated Land

The Council will encourage the remediation of contaminated land to ensure that land is brought back into effective use.

The Council will require evidence, in the form of a land contamination and geotechnical report as part of any application, to show that all unacceptable public health and environmental risks from site related contamination will be successfully addressed through remediation.

Development proposals will need to address, manage and mitigate any environmental impacts likely to arise during the remediation process and following the completion of development.

Should residential use be proposed, and the site concerned is unable to be satisfactorily remediated to a standard suitable for that use, the development will be refused.

Monitoring procedures to be undertaken prior, during and post remediation, and periodically for 5 years, and then 10 years following the completion of the development will be agreed with the applicant. These should be set out in a monitoring report.

For more information please see the Local Plan