Contaminated Land
Lead Researchers: Prof Robert Lee, Steven Vaughan
Background
Work on contaminated land and remediation is undertaken by Prof Robert Lee. The aim of the project is to review how legislation allowing the enforced remediation of contaminated land has aided urban regeneration. This is an important issue within the broader sustainability agenda given the target of building 60 per cent of all new housing on brown land.
The work also links in strongly to other work on regulation since the work to date suggests that the regulation has been effective not so much in relation to remediation conducted under formal remediation notices, but by voluntary remediation at the time of land transfer or by planning conditions as land passes through development. As such the project adds to other areas of BRASS research (e.g. food and waste) concerning public and private interest regulation.
