Craven District Council has a duty to inspect the land within its area to identify contaminated sites and act as an enforcing authority for contaminated land. The identification and safe re-use of contaminated land plays a key part in the sustainable development of the area.

During the inspection of land within its area the local Authority must undertake a formal risk assessment. We will adopt a two-stage approach to identify contaminated land:

Stage 1 - Risk screening to prioritise sites for further inspection.
Stage 2 - Detailed site inspection risk assessment. 

1. The Contaminated Land Strategy is available to download.
2. Our Developers Guide for building on potentially contaminated land is available to download
3. Further contaminated land information is available from the Environment Agency

The Environmental Protection Section is consulted, whenever a planning application is made for developments on or near previously used land (brownfield sites) which may be affected by contamination.

We may require conditions to be attached to a planning permission requiring a site investigation and remediation works to be carried out.