Five decades on from the height of Britain’s deindustrialisation, contaminated land continues to blight the country’s towns and cities, data seen by i shows. 🔴Exclusive from CapurrodDaniel
Major former industrial sites such as Redcar steelworks on Teeside have required huge sums to clean up Five decades on from the height of Britain’s deindustrialisation, contaminated land continues to blight the country’s towns and cities, data seen byThe untreated legacy of heavy industry is hemming in development and weighing on Britain’s struggling towns.
Warrington, which topped the list, had more than 40 million square metres, around 21 per cent of its total land area. The borough council said that this was a figure for “potentially” contaminated land, rather than official designated sites, and suggested the figure was so high partly because of concerted efforts to map possible issues and improve the land.
They are usually the sites of former factories, mines, tanneries, landfill or other heavy industry. Whereas modern developments are by law required to include remediation after the site closes, most contaminated sites predate such requirements.For much of the recent past, such land was often left derelict and ignored.
At the site of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London, the Government spent £12.7m on remediation work at a location where contaminants from a chemical works that operated until 2006 had leached into the ground.
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