Managing contaminated land

Duty to notify

There are notification requirements to report events or changes in condition that relate to contaminated land or notifiable activities that have occurred or are occurring on land.

A suitably qualified person has a duty to notify their employer or potentially the administering authority of an event related to contaminated land that has occurred.

Where a suitably qualified person or another employee has notified an owner or occupier, the owner or occupier would then have a duty to notify.

Further information is contained in the Guideline: duty to notify of environmental harm – ESR/2016/2271 (PDF, 290.3KB)

Notification

In this guide:

  1. General environmental duty
  2. Duty to notify
  3. Duty to restore
  4. Removals and changes to land registers
  5. Reconfiguring land
  6. Buying and selling contaminated land

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