Aims and Objectives

One initial part of the research compares the approaches of local authorities when charged with a statutory responsibility to prepare strategies detailing how they will deal with potentially contaminated land in their area. The objectives of the research are twofold: to analyse the approaches taken to risk assessment of sites essentially to question whether shared methodologies were adopted; and to review the extent to which the local authorities engaged with stakeholders in preparing the strategies adopted. Although the idea of a pollution linkage leading to regulatory intervention by a local authority is spelt out in legislation, there is no necessary uniform method by which such linkages are discovered. The research aims:

· To assess the extent to which when charged with a novel statutory obligation, local authorities succeeded in pooling expertise to devise a common approach;

· To review the adoption of risk assessment methodologies and to gauge the extent to which local authorities drew upon relevant studies from elsewhere in the public or in the private sector; to assess how, in devising the strategies, the local authorities involved stakeholders potentially holding or wishing to develop brown land, or likely to be affected by problems arising from land based pollution;

· To lay the foundations for further research on how the regulatory framework can be most efficiently employed to bring brown land back into fruitful use.

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