The first day of April 2000 saw the coming into force of what once was a new Part 11A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, as inserted by the Environment Act 1995.
The operative event was the publication of “guidance” that, as summarised by Richard Burnett-Hall, of Bristows, (see
The form and content of the new register of contaminated land is explained by Helen Peters, of Travers Smith Braithwaite in
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The first day of April 2000 saw the coming into force of what once was a new Part 11A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, as inserted by the Environment Act 1995.
The operative event was the publication of “guidance” that, as summarised by Richard Burnett-Hall, of Bristows, (see Beware: pollution costs Estates Gazette 8 January 2000, p33), deals, inter alia, with the all-important allocation of responsibility for the contamination of the land in question. As circumstances can arise where an innnocent buyer or lessee can find himself picking up the remediation bill, there are obvious pitfalls for professional advisers.
The form and content of the new register of contaminated land is explained by Helen Peters, of Travers Smith Braithwaite in Contamination Register, Estates Gazette 22 April 2000, p133.
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