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What is a Site Condition Report?
A Site Condition Report is a supporting document for an Environmental Permit, that details the following:
The condition of the site when you arrive. (Pre-application)
Incidents that may degrade the quality of the land during the life of the permit, and practices put in to operation that may help maintain the quality of land. (Operational)
Quality of the land on close of operations at the site. (Surrender)
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particular concern is that of Contaminated Land, it is important to
ascertain before operation commence that the land is not contaminated
from previous industries occupying the site. This can be accomplished via a Desktop Study which will define whether the land is is likely to be contaminated. If conclusive evidence can not be found from secondary data, then Soil Sampling can be used to give a quantitative description of soil quality. It is vital to check whether your site is contaminated before you start or you could be left footing a large clean up bill (remediation) when you come to surrender your permit. Other documents associated with Environmental Permit Applications: Site Management Plan Odour Management Plan Back to Main Site: Permit Applications Permit Surrender Permit Exemptions |
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Case Study - Waste Facility built commissioned on Former Colour Works
The UK already has plenty of contaminated land, and the Environment Agency are keen to minimize further impact on land quality from permitted activities via the use of site condition reports. Below we see the present day layout of the site (similar to the 1994 map), and what the site was being used for 30 odd years ago.
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It is apparent that the site being proposed for use as a waste facility may well have significantly lower land quality owing to the presence of a "colour works" on the present site.
Historic factors such as these must be considered when assembling a site condition report.
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