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View from the Front line Rob Ivens Mole Valley District Council

View from the Front line Rob Ivens Mole Valley District Council. Why am I here Work for a small LA’ Done quite a lot of work We started under nuisance Circa 1998 What is my message Local Authorities have an important role

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View from the Front line Rob Ivens Mole Valley District Council

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  1. View from the Front line Rob Ivens Mole Valley District Council • Why am I here • Work for a small LA’ Done quite a lot of work • We started under nuisance Circa 1998 • What is my message • Local Authorities have an important role • After 3 years of cuts 25% across the board we are “Down but not out” • How might things be improved

  2. Historical Surrey • Green and Pleasant • No problems in our area… 1500 sites- But the vast majority are not of regulatory concern

  3. Local Authority Duties • Prevent more contamination: • Planning • Other Environmental Permitting Regimes and • Part 2A (To tackle the historic legacy) • Identifying unacceptable risks • Establishing how to fix them • Dealing with the worst sites

  4. Development Control Local Authorities and the private sector can properly develop difficult site National Planning Policy Framework is clear about duties BUT Only after significant lobying…. Noise didn’t do so well…

  5. What is an acceptable risk….

  6. Part IIA- Prioritisation How Do you Feel?

  7. How long do these things take Cost – of doing the work

  8. Investigation- Aviation Works

  9. Prelim_SI £7k Stage_1 15k Stage_2 25k 12 holes 35 Holes 41Holes Cost of investigation. Total cost of decision £60K

  10. A Predictable reaction

  11. Duties and Powers- Costs • When Contaminated Land is identified • Duty to Establish how to fix the problem • Duty to Attribute Costs & apportion liability • Power to remediate • Investigations • Cost £15K-£75K per site • Remediation costs • £8-15K a property • £300,000 to £3M+ per site

  12. Summary • Local Authorities can do good work • We can collaborate with private sector to • provide valuable resources and tools and • Good practice • Money talks! • Need a “NEW DEAL” with central Government • We should be actively looking at the worst sites BUT • How an earth can Local authorities meet remediation costs of Millions

  13. An alternative approach Central/Public portal of all decisions and remediation statements • We should not “wring our hands” despairingly • Contamination is like “noise” the ombudsman “terrorises” EHO’s over nuisance complaints.. • Central government shows little interest in “Brown Field” contamination • Councils should fund the underlying inspection duties • Government MUST fund the resulting remediation • Regime Change…not legislative change • Why do LA’s and residents assume this is the states problem… • Good Practice needs to be funded in “rational ordered and efficient manner” Self help- Residents collect data on there own sites at point of sale

  14. Thanks- and some work we have funded

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