Object

Representation ID: 55470

Received: 27/09/2020

Respondent: Mr Matthew Asplin

The policy advises that

Prior to commencement of development a comprehensive site wide Contaminated Land Phase 1
– Desk Top Study / Preliminary Risk Assessment of the entire area shall be undertaken and
completed.

This is a source of concern as the draft plan recognises the potential for contamination of the
current waste water treatment site. This would indicate that no phase 1 Desk top study or risk
analysis has been completed thus far, let alone an in depth risk assessment. Should this not be a
pre-cursor, without which budgets and financial forecasts could well be flawed and potentially
impact viability and/or affordable housing content?

Despite acknowledgment within the plan of the potential for contamination, at the same time it is
proposed to relocate the current waste water treatment works to a green belt location, one of
which is sited over a High Vulnerability Principle Aquifer (source Anglian Water Stage-3-Fine-
Screening-Appendix-F-Contaminated-Land-Appraisal).

Page 32 advises that the feasibility studies relating to relocation of the treatment works are now
complete and relocation off-site is the option moving forward. This would have to question the
depth and therefore integrity of the evaluation.